al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān (Author)
Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān (d. 364/974) was born in Tunisia and
joined the service of the Fatimids in 313/925, eventually rising to
the position of supreme judge. As the most important jurist and
legal author of the Fatimid Empire, his work founded Ismāʿīlī law
as a discipline.
Devin Stewart (Edited and Translated by)
Devin J. Stewart is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
at Emory University. He has written on the Qurʾan, Shiʿi Islam, and
Islamic legal education.
""Stewart has rendered al-Nu'mans work into intelligible and
elegant English, in keeping with the goals of the Library of Arabic
Literature series to open up certain valuable and influential works
in the
Arabic tradition to a wider reading public. " (Journal of the
American Oriental Society) "[Disagreements of the Jurists]is very
important for students of jurisprudence and for reconstructing
fiqh's development" (The American Journal of Islamic Social
Sciences) "This book will be useful especially to those who are
interested in the history of law and secondarily those who are
interested in the history of the Fatimids." (Speculum)
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