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Description of  Malik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period

This book studies the legal reasoning of Mlik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaa' and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mlik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion (ra'y), dissent, and legal adths and challenges the paradigm that Muslim jurists ultimately concurred on a "four-source" (Qurn, sunna, consensus, and analogy) theory of law. Instead, Mlik and Medina emphasizes that the four Sunn schools of law (madhhib) emerged during the formative period as distinctive, consistent, yet largely unspoken legal methodologies and persistently maintained their independence and continuity over the next millennium. My Link