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| Letter from the General Editor | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Note on the Text | |
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| Notes to the Introduction | |
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| Epistle on Legal Theory | |
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| Chapter on the Modalities of Legislative Statements | |
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| Chapter on the First Kind of Legislative Statement | |
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| Chapter on the Second Kind of Legislative Statement | |
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| Chapter on the Third Kind of Legislative Statement | |
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| Chapter on the Fourth Kind of Legislative Statement | |
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| Chapter on the Fifth Kind of Legislative Statement | |
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| Chapter Explaining What Is Revealed in the Book as Unrestricted, and Intended as Unrestricted, but Also Partly Restricted | |
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| Chapter Explaining What Is Revealed in the Book, the Apparent Meaning of Which Is Unrestricted but Which Combines the Unrestricted and the Restricted | |
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| Chapter Explaining What Is Revealed in the Book, the Apparent Meaning of Which Is Unrestricted but Which Is Intended in Its Entirety as Restricted | |
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| Chapter on the Category of Statements in Which Context Indicates the Meaning | |
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| The Category in Which the Wording Indicates the True Meaning Rather Than the Apparent Meaning | |
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| Chapter on What Is Revealed as Unrestricted and Which Prophetic Practice in Particular Indicated Is Intended as Restricted | |
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| Explanation of God's Imposition in His Book of the Obligation to Follow the Practice of His Prophet | |
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| The Obligation from God to Obey the Prophet, Paired with Obedience to God and Mentioned Separately | |
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| Chapter on God's Command to Obey God's Emissary | |
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| Chapter on God's Statement to His Creation Concerning Having Obliged His Emissary to Follow What Was Revealed to Him; The Evidence He Gave Concerning His Emissary's Following What He Was Commanded to Do, His Emissary's Being Guided, and His Emissary's Guidance of Those Who Follow Him | |
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| The Beginning of Abrogation | |
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| Abrogation Indicated Partly by the Book and Partly by Prophetic Practice | |
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| Chapter on the Obligation to Pray That the Book and Then Prophetic Practice Indicate to Be Obviated by Reason of an Excuse; and Concerning Him Whose Prayer Is Not Counted as Disobedience | |
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| Abrogation Indicated by Prophetic Practice and Consensus | |
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| Chapter on Obligations That God Revealed in the Form of Explicit Texts | |
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| Obligations Established by Explicit Texts and in Regard to Which God's Emissary Provided a Parallel Practice | |
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| Obligations Established by Explicit Texts in Regard to Which Prophetic Practice Indicates That He Intended Something Restrictive | |
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| Obligations Expressed in General Terms | |
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| Concerning Alms | |
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| Concerning the Pilgrimage | |
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| Concerning Waiting Periods | |
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| Concerning Women Unlawful to Marry | |
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| Concerning Unlawful Kinds of Food | |
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| Concerning That from Which Widows Must Abstain during the Waiting Period | |
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| Chapter on Problems Affecting Hadith-Reports | |
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| Another Instance of Abrogation | |
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| Another Instance | |
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| Another Instance | |
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| Another Instance of Legal Disagreement | |
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| Inconsistency in Narration in a Way That Differs from What Preceded | |
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| Another Instance Considered Contradictory, but Not by Us | |
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| Another Instance Considered a Case of Legal Disagreement | |
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| Another Instance of Legal Disagreement | |
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| Concerning the Major Washing for Friday Prayer | |
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| Prohibition for a Reason Indicated by a Reason Given in Another Hadith-Report | |
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| Prohibition for a Reason That Is Clearer Than That in the Preceding Discussion | |
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| Prohibition for a Reason Resembling the Preceding Discussion in One Way, and Differing from It in Another | |
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| An Instance That Resembles the Preceding Point | |
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| Description of God's and His Emissary's Prohibitions | |
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| Chapter on Knowledge | |
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| Chapter on the Uncorroborated Report | |
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| Authority Confirming the Uncorroborated Report | |
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| Chapter on Consensus | |
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| Chapter on the Confirmation of Analogical Reasoning and Legal Interpretation; When Analogizing Is Necessary and When Not; Who May Perform Analogies | |
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| Chapter on Legal Interpretation | |
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| Chapter on Subjective Reasoning | |
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| Chapter on Legal Disagreement | |
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| Chapter on Inheritance Shares | |
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| Chapter on me Disagreement over the Grandfather | |
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| Opinions of the Companions | |
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| The Status of Consensus and Analogy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary of Names and Terms | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index of Qur'an Passages | |
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| Index | |
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| About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute | |
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| About the Typefaces | |
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| About the Editor-Translator | |