The Dialectical Forge

Chapter 1 The Current Project.- Chapter 2 Evolutionary Narratives.- Chapter 3 The Subject-Text and its Genre.- Chapter 4 The Full-System Jadal Theory of the Lens-Texts.- Chapter 5 Extended Dialectical Sequences.- Chapter 6 Short Dialectical Sequences & Independent Dialectical Formulae.- Chapter 7 A Picture of Proto-System Jadal.- Chapter 8 Usul al-Fiqh and Jadal-Theory in the Dialectical Forge.- Chapter 9 Supplementary Paradigms and Open Doors.- Appendix I: al-Basri's Modes of Qiyas-Oriented Dialectic.- Appendix II: al-Shirazi's Modes of Itirad.- Appendix III: al-Baji's Modes of Itirad.- Glossary: Select Technical Terms of Islamic Legal Theory and Dialectic.

"Young's monograph is invaluable for understanding the emergence of dialectics in Islamic thought and for appreciating the role that dialectics played in the formation of Islamic law. It provides a rare example of the effective use of debates on individual points of Islamic law ... . the book also constitutes an excellent pedagogical resource: with its parallel text, translation, and analytic discussion, it offers an ideal way for students to learn to decipher such complex discussions." (Ahmed El Shamsy, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 141 (3), 2021)

“Young’s monograph is invaluable for understanding the emergence of dialectics in Islamic thought and for appreciating the role that dialectics played in the formation of Islamic law. It provides a rare example of the effective use of debates on individual points of Islamic law … . the book also constitutes an excellent pedagogical resource: with its parallel text, translation, and analytic discussion, it offers an ideal way for students to learn to decipher such complex discussions.” (Ahmed El Shamsy, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 141 (3), 2021)