LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE 3

Muhammad Ibn Idris al-Shafi'i, The Epistle on Legal Theory (Library of Arabic Literature), edited and translated from the Arabic by Joseph E. Lowry (New York & London: New York U. Press, 2013) ("[T]here is no denying that [Muhammad Ibn Idris al-Shafi'i] is a centrally important figure in the history of Islamic law, and that his Epistle on Legal Theory is the first work in Arabic, or at least the earliest surviving such work, to offer a sustained theoretical account of textual interpretation, legal epistemology, and legal reasoning in Islamic law." Id. at xv.).