Muhammad al-Mawardi: “On Qadis”

Further Reading

Articles

• Rebstock, Ulrich. “A Qadi’s Errors.” Islamic Law and Society 6, no. 1 (1999): 1–37.

Books

• Al-Jaziri, Abd al-Rahman. Islamic Jurisprudence according to the Four Sunni Schools. Louisville, Ky.: Fons Vitae, 2009.
• Brown, Daniel. A New Introduction to Islam. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
• Calder, Norman. Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Dutton, Yasin. Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur’an, the Muwatta’ and Madinan Amal. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
• Gibb, H. A. R. “Al-Mawardi’s Theory of the Khilafah.” In Studies on the Civilization of Islam, eds. Stanford J. Shaw and William R. Polk. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962.
• Hallaq, Wael B. A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Mikhail, Hanna. Politics and Revelation. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press, 1995.
• Motzki, Harald. The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools, trans. Marion H. Katz. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001.
• Schacht, Joseph. An Introduction to Islamic Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Web Sites

• “Abu al-Hasan al-Mawardi.” The Window: Philosophy on the Internet Web site. http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/muslim/mawardi.html.
• Hurvitz, Nimrod. Competing Texts: The Relationship between al-Mawardi’s and Abu Ya’la’s Al-Ahkam al-sultaniyya. Islamic Legal Studies Program Web site. http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/ilsp/publications/hurvitz.pdf.