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BOOK REVIEWS book reviews 271 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Islamic Law and Society 9, 2 Also available online – www.brill.nl BOOK REVIEWS BROCKOPP, Jonathan E. Early M¨lik Law: Ibn ®Abd al-¼akam and His Major Compendium of Jurisprudence . Studies in Islamic Law and Society, edited by Ruud Peters and Bernard Weiss, volume 14. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000. Pp. xx + 312. ISBN 90 04 11628 1. $ 95.00 This is a heavily revised version of BrockoppÕs doctoral dissertation (Yale, 1995). In Chapter One, Brockopp introduces the Egyptian M¨lik jurist ®Abd All¨h b. ®Abd al-¼akam (d. Old Cairo, 214/829), who seems to have transmitted directly from M¨lik and is reputed to have become head of the local M¨lik school on the death of Ashhab in 204/820. Brockopp argues that precisely because Ibn ®Abd al-¼akam never became the eponymous founder of a school, the biographical information about him is relatively free of the retrospective glorification and false attribution that so complicate the biographies of better- known figures, such as M¨lik and Sh¨fi®Â. Brockopp then sketches the history of Ibn ®Abd al-¼akamÕs three epitomes of M¨lik law, subject of multiple commentaries and reworkings over the next three centuries. Brockopp has http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Islamic Law and Society Brill

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book reviews 271 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Islamic Law and Society 9, 2 Also available online – www.brill.nl BOOK REVIEWS BROCKOPP, Jonathan E. Early M¨lik Law: Ibn ®Abd al-¼akam and His Major Compendium of Jurisprudence . Studies in Islamic Law and Society, edited by Ruud Peters and Bernard Weiss, volume 14. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000. Pp. xx + 312. ISBN 90 04 11628 1. $ 95.00 This is a heavily revised version of BrockoppÕs doctoral dissertation (Yale, 1995). In Chapter One, Brockopp introduces the Egyptian M¨lik jurist ®Abd All¨h b. ®Abd al-¼akam (d. Old Cairo, 214/829), who seems to have transmitted directly from M¨lik and is reputed to have become head of the local M¨lik school on the death of Ashhab in 204/820. Brockopp argues that precisely because Ibn ®Abd al-¼akam never became the eponymous founder of a school, the biographical information about him is relatively free of the retrospective glorification and false attribution that so complicate the biographies of better- known figures, such as M¨lik and Sh¨fi®Â. Brockopp then sketches the history of Ibn ®Abd al-¼akamÕs three epitomes of M¨lik law, subject of multiple commentaries and reworkings over the next three centuries. Brockopp has

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