Title: Thorough study of Malik b. Anas
Product review: Dutton's work is fascinating for numerous reasons, but the most prominent among them is the amount of detail spent in examining the jurisprudence of the Medinans, specifically as represented by Malik. I found much of what Dutton wrote to be healthy balance to some of the more extreme interpretations of Goldziher and Schacht insofar as Dutton is able to supercede the naivity of the current traditional approach to hadith among Muslim scholars of Islamic law while simultaneously integrating the conclusions of critical scholarship. Essential to the work and one of its main contributions as well is the treatment of the Qur'an as a source for jurisprudence and legal reasoning in Islam alongside the sunnah, 'amal, ra'y, etc.
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