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ajiss-2680	Mas’ud, Muhammad Khalid	Studies in Qur’an and Hadith: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance by David S. Powers; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986, 263 pp. (Appendices, Glossary Bibliography, Index and Tables).	1989.0	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3276	143	63	David S. Powers’ book, originally a doctoral dissertation submitted to Princeton University, is a welcome addition to the already growing corpus of studies revising Joseph Schacht’s thesis that Islamic law did not exist dur- ing the lifetime of the Prophet. The thesis presented in this book can be summarized as follows: Islamic law began to develop with Qur‘anic legislation which was more clear and systematic on the subject of inheritance.	cache/ajiss-2680.pdf	txt/ajiss-2680.txt