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By Shaykh Mustafa al-A’zami Edits by Daud R. Matthews 1. Abstract: Norman Calder’s work: “Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence” was published by Oxford University Press in 1993. He has studied six legal texts of three Muslim legal schools, These are: 1. Mudawwana of Sahnun 2. Muwatta of Malik 3. Some Hanafi text 4. The Kitab al-Umm of Shafi’i 5. The Mukhtasar of Muzani 6. Kital-al-Kharaj of Abu Yusuf He started with Malik; then Hanafi and afterwards the Shafi’i school of law. In his conviction he proved that not only these six books, no, but all the Islamic Arabic literature which…