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ajiss-813	Vaid, Mobeen	Reviving the Balance: The Authority of the Qur’an and the Status of the Sunnah By Taha Jabir Alalwani (Herndon: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2017. 224 pages.)	2018.0	7	.pdf	application/pdf	2719	93	42	It is here that we encounter Alalwani’s central thesis, namely, that the Qur’an as the receptacle of word and command has been subordinated to the weight of “narrative” hegemony represented by the pro- phetic Sunnah, allowing jurists to postulate any number of rulings that, at best, reflect merely circumstantial and discretionary opinion and, at worst, subversions of the divine command whilst maintaining attribution to God. Accordingly, Alalwani’s ensuing disquisition aims to correct this allegedly errant development by examining the prophetic com- munity, the relationship of the Qur’an to the prophetic practice, the rise of “narrative generations” prizing prophetic practice, and finally, the authori- tativeness of the Sunnah and its concomitant sciences (muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīth).	cache/ajiss-813.pdf	txt/ajiss-813.txt