Original Islam

Original Islam investigates the primacy of Madinan Islam and the madhhab (school of law) of its main exponent, Malik ibn Anas. It contains an annotated translation of Intisar al-faqir al-salik li-tarjih madhhab al-Imam al-kabir Malik, which was written by al-Ra''i, a fifteenth-century Andalusian scholar resident in Cairo.

This book includes:

• a comprehensive section on the scholarly credentials of t...