The Semitic Series
DEVELOPMENT OF
MUSLIM THEOLOGY, JURISPRUDENCE
AND CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY
By DUNCAN B. MACDONALD, M.A., B.D.
SERIES OF HAND-BOOKS IN SEMITICS
EDITED BY JAMES ALEXANDER CRAIG
PROFESSOR OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AND
HELLENISTIC GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Recent scientific research has stimulated an increasing interestin Semitic studies among scholars, students, and theserious reading public generally. It has provided us with apicture of a hitherto unknown civilization, and a history ofone of the great branches of the human family.
The object of the present Series is to state its results inpopularly scientific form. Each work is complete in itself, andthe Series, taken as a whole, neglects no phase of the generalsubject. Each contributor is a specialist in the subject assignedhim, and has been chosen from the body of eminentSemitic scholars in Europe and in this country.
This Series will be composed of the following volumes:
I. Hebrews. History and Government. By ProfessorJ. F. McCurdy, University of Toronto, Canada.
II. Hebrews. Ethics and Religion. By Professor ArchibaldDuff, Airedale College, Bradford, England. [Now Ready.
III. Hebrews. The Social Life. By the Rev. EdwardDay, Springfield, Mass. [Now Ready.
IV. Babylonians and Assyrians, with introductory chapteron the Sumerians. History to the Fall of Babylon.By Dr. Hugo Winckler, University of Berlin. [In Press.
V. Babylonians and Assyrians. Religion. By ProfessorJ. A. Craig, University of Michigan.
VI. Babylonians and Assyrians. Life and Customs. ByProfessor A. H. Sayce, University of Oxford, England. [Now Ready.
VII. Babylonians and Assyrians. Excavations and Accountof Decipherment of Inscriptions.
VIII. Syria and Palestine. Early History. By ProfessorLewis Bayles Paton, Hartford Theological Seminary. [Now Ready.
IX. Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudenceand Constitutional Theory. By Professor D. B.Macdonald, Hartford Theological Seminary. [Now Ready.
The following volumes are to be included in the Series,and others may be added:
X. Phœnicia. History and Government, includingColonies, Trade, and Religion.
XI. Arabia, Discoveries in, and History and Religionuntil Muhammad.
XII. Arabic Literature and Science since Muhammad.
XIII. The Influence of Semitic Art and Mythology onWestern Nations.
The Semitic Series
DEVELOPMENT OF
Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence
and Constitutional Theory
BY
DUNCAN B. MACDONALD, M.A., B.D.
SOMETIME SCHOLAR AND FELLOW OF T