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DEVIN STEWART, Islamic Legal Orthodoxy: Twelve Shiite Responses to the Sunni Legal System (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1998). Pp. 289. $40.00 cloth.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2003
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Devin Stewart has written a thoroughly researched and closely argued analysis of how Twelver Shiעi legal theory developed in response to the institutionalization of Sunni law. He contends that the origins and history of Twelver Shiעi law, sparked by the vacuum in authority brought about by the Occultation of the twelfth imam, was motivated by the need to communicate and debate with Sunni jurists.
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