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ajiss-721	Shareef, Umar	Hermeneutics in the Genre of Mukhtaṣar: Civil and Commercial Law in Islamic Law by Husain Kassim	2020.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1568	55	51	For example, he claims the Ḥanbalī jurist al-Khiraqī, by virtue of using hadith, employs the hermeneutics of al-Shāfiʿī and thus contributes to the development and systemization of the legal system—but he provides no evi- dence of such an approach nor explains how it specifically impacts the Ḥan- balī school (96). Focusing on civil and commercial law, Husain Kassim’s argument is twofold: first, that mukhtaṣars are more than just succinct legal summaries of earlier jurists but also that in their own right they work to structure the law by incor- porating the hermeneutical methodology of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820); and, second, that mukhtaṣars reflect legal development and change over time, a view most clearly expressed in their articulation of new legal positions 157Book Reviews not found in the works of earlier jurists.	cache/ajiss-721.pdf	txt/ajiss-721.txt