Hermeneutics in the genre of mukhtasar : civil and commercial law in Islamic law / Husain Kassim.

Part 1 : Islamic legal hermeneutics, and the genre of mukhtasar -- Al-Shāfiʻī's concept of hermeneutics : the Risāla and the role it has played in the formation of Islamic law -- The nature of the compositions of Mukhtasar and the formation of islamic legal system -- Part 2. Continuity of hermeneutics in the compositions of mukhtasar with translation of Arabic texts -- Shāfiʻī school of law : hermeneutics as reflected in K al-Umm, al-Muzanī's mukhtaṣar, and al-Shirazi's Tanbih -- Hanafi school of law : hermeneutics as reflected in al-Tahawi's mukhtaṣar, al-Shīrāzī's Tanbīh supplemented with al-Marghīnānī's Hidāya in reference -- Ḥanbalī school of law : hermeneutical as reflected in al-Khiraqī's mukhtaṣar -- Mālikī school of law : hermeneutics as reflected in Khalīl's mukhtaṣar -- Differences of opinion (ikhtilaf al-fuqha') among the jurists from hermeneutical perspective in the formation of islamic legal system -- Conclusion --Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.

Includes bibliographical references and index.