The Economy of Certainty : an Introduction to the Typology of Islamic Legal Theory.

EpilogueI. The Supposed Ẓāhirism of Ibn Tūmart and Ibn ʿArabī
 II. Twelver Shiʿism
 III. Conclusion
 Addenda to the Epilogue
 Bibliography
 Table of Page Correspondences
 Index of Qur\'an Citations
 Index of Arabic Terms and Proper Nouns. VII. Consensus after DisagreementVIII. Ẓāhirism and the Support of Consensus
 IX. Conclusion
 Summary
 Addenda
 4: Analogy
 I. Introduction
 II. The Foundations of Analogy
 1. Arguments for Analogy
 2. Anti-Analogism
 3. The Explicit Cause
 III. Noncausal Analogy
 IV. The Epistemology of the Cause
 1. Appropriateness
 2. Effectiveness
 3. Formal Methods
 V. The Ontology of the Cause
 VI. Al-maṣāliḥ al-mursala
 VII. Istiḥsān
 VIII. Specialization of the Cause
 Summary
 Addenda
 5: Ijtihad
 I. Ijtihād and Probability
 II. Infallibilism
 III. Consequences of Infallibilism
 Summary
 Addenda. III. The Linguistic PostulatesIV. The Imperative
 1. The Deontological Value of the Imperative
 2. Performance of the Commanded Act
 V. The General and Special Terms
 1. Introduction
 2. Theological Background
 3. Specialization of the General Term
 4. Hermeneutical Procedure
 VI. Ẓāhirī Hermeneutics
 VII. The Argumentum a Fortiori
 VIII. The Argumentum a Contrario
 Summary
 Addenda
 3 Consensus
 I. Introduction
 II. The Basis of the Doctrine of Consensus
 III. The Operation of Consensus
 IV. Tacit Consensus
 V. Consensus of the Majority
 VI. Inqirāḍ al- ʿaṣr. Title Page
 Contents
 Series Editors\' Preface
 Foreword
 Author\'s Preface
 Acknowledgments
 Abbreviations
 Introduction
 1: The Authentication of Prophetic Traditions
 I. The Concurrent Tradition
 1. The Conditions of Concurrency
 2. The Classification of Concurrent Knowledge
 II. The Mashhūr Tradition
 III. The Unit-Tradition
 1. The Unit-Tradition in Ḥanafism
 2. The Unit-Tradition in Ẓāhirism and Ḥanbalism
 IV. Discontinuity
 1. The Mursal Tradition
 2. Inner Discontinuity
 Summary
 Addenda
 2: Interpretation
 I. The Nature of Islamic Hermeneutics
 II. The Hermeneutical Apparatus.