Translation of Ibn Qudama al-Makdisi's "A Treatise on the Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence"
FAIN: RL-20741-85
American Oriental Society (New Haven, CT 06520)
Jeanette Wakin (Project Director: July 1984 to October 1990)
To support the translation of a 12th-century legal treatise written by the foremost representative of traditionalist Hanbali Islam, Ibn Qudamah. The workstill functions as an authoritative source for Islamic fundamentalists.