Table of Contents

Preface VII

Georges Tamer
Philosophical Reflections in the Poetry of al-Shāfiʿī 1

Feriel Bouhafa
Ethics and Fiqh in al-Fārābī’s Philosophy 11

Hannah C. Erlwein
Ibn Sīnā’s Moral Ontology and Theory of Law 29

Nora Kalbarczyk
In the Footsteps of Ibn Sīnā? The Uṣūlī Debate on the Argumentum e
Contrario 53

Ulrich Rudolph
Al-Ghazālī on Philosophy and Jurisprudence 67

Felicitas Opwis
Syllogistic Logic in Islamic Legal Theory: al-Ghazālī’s Arguments for the
Certainty of Legal Analogy (Qiyās) 93

Joep Lameer
Deontic Modalities in Ibn Ḥazm 113

Ziad Bou Akl

Splitting the Process and the Result: Philosophy from a Legal Perspective in
Averroes’ Decisive Treatise 129

Jon Hoover
Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s Religious Utilitarianism 145

Robert Gleave
Value Ontology and the Assumption of Non-Assessment in Postclassical Shīʿī
Legal Theory 169
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Amir Mohammad Emami and Mirza Mohammad Kazem Askari

Tajarrī as Religious Luck 195

Walter Edward Young

Concomitance to Causation: Arguing Dawarān in the Proto-Ādāb
al-baḥth 205

Bibliography 283

Index of Names 307

Index of Subjects 311