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'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Amr al-Awza'i

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‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Amr al-Awza‘i (c.707–774) was Umayyad Syria’s most influential jurist, part of a generation of scholars who began establishing the first formal structures for the preservation and dissemination of religious knowledge. Following the Abbasid revolution, they provided a point of stability in otherwise unstable times.

Despite his close ties to the old regime, al-Awza‘i continued to participate in legal and theological matters in the Abbasid era. Although his immediate impact would prove short-lived, his influence on aspects of Islamic law, particularly the laws of war, endures to this day.

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  • Publisher: Oneworld Academic (November 7, 2019)
  • Length: 144 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781786076861

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‘Despite the fragmentary evidence at his disposal, Judd has given us a nuanced and well-rounded portrait of the life and teaching of an important but largely neglected jurist and theologian of the formative period of Islamic legal thought.’

– R. Stephen Humphreys, Professor Emeritus of History and Islamic Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

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