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alusur-7037	Melchert, Christopher	Māwardī’s Legal Thinking	2015-11-15	19	.pdf	application/pdf	11344	549	67	It draws heavily on the Persian and Hellenistic traditions as well as on the Arabo-Islamic.32 The fourth seems to be one of his earliest works, from about 393/1002-3.33 Dedicated to the Buwayhid prince Bahā’ al-Dawlah, it too draws for its quotations on both the Persian and Islamic imperial traditions (Anūshirvān and Ardashīr on the Persian side, various Umayyad and ʿAbbāsid caliphs and their governors on the Islamic), besides various unnamed ḥukamā’, some evidently in the Hellenistic tradition.34 An unpublished manuscript in the Escorial titled al-Faḍā’il 24. Al-Wizārah mentions wazīr al-tanfīdh but says nothing of his religion.26 One might infer from such differences the evolution of Māwardī’s thinking, on the assumption that al-Wizārah is an early work and al-Aḥkām a late; however, it would be difficult to distinguish between differences occasioned by the evolution of his thought and others occasioned by genre and limits on length, and I attempt no systematic comparison here.	cache/alusur-7037.pdf	txt/alusur-7037.txt