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CHAPTER 1: The Arab Consequests and the Formation of Islamic Society @ Page 1 CHAPTER 2: Pre-Islamic Background and Early Development of Jurisprudence @ Page 29 CHAPTER 3: Foreign Elements in Ancient Islamic Law @ Page 59 CHAPTER 4: The British-Hour of Muslim Law?: An Essay in Exegesis @ Page 69 CHAPTER 5: Two Legal Problems Bearing on the Early History of the Qur'an @ Page 77 CHAPTER 6: Unconditional Manumission of Slaves in Early Islamic Law: A Hadith Analysis @ Page 115 CHAPTER 7: The Role of Non-Arab Converts in the Development of Early Islamic Law @ Page 153 CHAPTER 8: The Judiciary (Qadis) as a Governmental-Administrative Tool in Early Islam @ Page 179 CHAPTER 9: Islamic Juristic Terminology before Safi'i: A Semantic Analysis with Special Reference to Kufa @ Page 211 CHAPTER 10: Was Al-Shafi'i the Master Architect of Islamic Jurisprudence? @ Page 257 CHAPTER 11: Muhammad b. Da'ud al-Zahiris Manual of Jurisprudence, al-Wusul ila Ma 'rifat al-Usul @ Page 277 CHAPTER 12: Early Ijtihad and the Later Construction of Authority @ Page 317 CHAPTER 13: The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law @ Page 351 CHAPTER 14: The Caliphs, the 'Ulama', and the Law: Defining the Role and Function of the Caliph in the Early 'Abbasid Period @ Page 367