Original Islam

Investigates the primacy of Madinan Islam and the madhhab (school of law) of its main exponent, Malik ibn Anas. This work contains an annotated translation of "Intisar al-faqir al-salik li-tarjih madhhab al-Imam al-kabir Malik", which was written by al-Ra'i, a fifteenth-century Andalusian scholar resident in Cairo.