This book is the first Western-language study of a legal Qurn commentary and the first examination of a Zayd tafsr. It proposes an original framework for classifying legal passages of the Qurn based on Sayyid Muammad b. al-Hds (d. 720/1320) Qurn commentary, The Garden and the Pool. It shows that the legal Qurn commentary format can serve both as a teaching tool and as a platform for a Muslim jurist to demonstrate his legal expertise. This book includes a critical edition of Muammad b. al-Hds interpretation of the Sra of Light based on a manuscript written by the author himself.
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Muammad b. al-Hd and his Place in the Zayd Intellectual
Tradition
Chapter 2: Muammad b. al-Hds Legal Qurn Commentary: Method and Sources
Chapter 3: Muammad b. al-Hds 199 Legal Passages in the Qurn: A
Framework for Analysis
Chapter 4: Legal Passages in the Sra of Light
Chapter 5: Prayer
Chapter 6: Divorce
Chapter 7: Warfare
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix A: Critical Edition of the Commentary on the Sra of Light in The
Garden and the Pool
Appendix B: English Translation of Muammad b. al-Hds 199 Legal Passages
in the Qurn
Scott C. Lucas, Ph.D. (2002), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Arizona. He has published on Sunni hadith literature, Qurn commentary, and Zaydi Shiism, including Constructive Critics, Hadith Literature, and the Articulation of Sunni Islam (Brill 2004).
