[Book Review]: “The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition, İstanbul: Cambridge University Press, 2013”

Abstract

In this monograph, Sadeghi attempts to explain the legal thought of ?anafi jurists in the post-formative period, which he defines as “the period after the birth of the ?anafi legal tradition in the second/eighth century (p. 4).” The thesis of the book can be best summarized in his own words: “The reasons jurists give for the laws (“legal reasons”) adapt to accommodate the laws, and the laws adapt under the pressure of social conditions.” However, the default state is that laws do not change due to legal inertia.