The Epistle on Legal Theory kalsooni Publisher: Sufi Ruhaniat International

Publisher: Sufi Ruhaniat International

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'Life isn’t always easyEven when you’re small

Mantiqu't-Tair is one of the masterpieces of Persian literature of which a complete and annotated translation into English is here presented for the first time as The Speech of the Birds

The Epistle of Forgiveness mocks Ibn al-Qari’s hypocrisy and sycophancy by imagining he has died and arrived with some difficulty in Heaven

The Epistle on Legal Theory kalsooni Publisher: Sufi Ruhaniat InternationalThe Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al Shafi'i (d. 204 820), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This fascinating work offers the first systematic treatment in Arabic of key issues in Islamic legal thought. These include a survey of the importance of Arabic