Encyclopaedia Of Islamic Law And Jurisprudence
In addition to the Koran, early jurisprudence relied on Sunna, which seems to have originallymeant the generaI or time-honoured usage of the community, and ra'y, which at this stage meant "sound opinion" or "considered opinion." With the work of al-Shafi, and generally for Sunnis in the course of the ninth century, it became standard theory that there was not one scripture in lslam, but actually t...
In addition to the Koran, early jurisprudence relied on Sunna, which seems to have originallymeant the generaI or time-honoured usage of the community, and ra'y, which at this stage meant "sound opinion" or "considered opinion." With the work of al-Shafi, and generally for Sunnis in the course of the ninth century, it became standard theory that there was not one scripture in lslam, but actually t...
