Schools - General Overview
- Vesey-FitzGerald, Seymour Gonne, Muhammadan Law: an abridgement to its various schools.Classic work on the application of Islamic law in Imperial India and East Africa--also outlines the various schools' doctrines.
Maliki
- Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi, Abregé de la loi musulmane selon le rite de l'imam MalekTranslation in 4 volumes of Khalil. Good translation of the Mukhtasar. Also has useful explanatory notes.
- Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi, Maliki law: being a summary from French translations of Mukhtasar of Sidi Khalil, with ntoes and bibliographyThe quality of this translation is often questioned by scholars. Refer to the Bosquet Précis or to the Santillana Instituzioni.
Shi'ite
- Baillie, Neil B.E. (Neil Benjamin Edmonstone) A digest of Moohummudan (sic) law : compiled and translated from authorities in the original ArabicContains an introduction and explanatory notes. Translates part of the Shi' manual of fiqh Shara'i al-Islam.
- Modarressi, Hossein, An introduction to Shii law: a bibliographical study.Comprehensive; introduction very thorough. Includes books and manuscripts.
- Tabatabai, Muhammad Husayn, Shi'ite Islam.Translation from the Persian.
Hanbali
- Ibn Taymiyah, Admad ibn Abd al-Halim, Ibn Taimiyya on public and private law in Islam: or public policy in Islamic jurisprudenceTranslation of Kitab al-siyasa al-shar'iya which deals with jurisprudence and public policy.
- Marghinani, Ali ibn Abi Bakr, The Hedaya, or Guide: a commentary on the Mussulman lawsSource for Hanafi law.
Shafii
- Abu Shuja' al-Isfahani, Ahmad ibn al-Husayn, Fath al-Qarib: La revelation de l'omnipresent. Commentaire sur le precis de jurisprudence musulmane d'Abou Chodja' par Ibn Qasim al-Ghazzi.Arabic and French texts on facing pages. Arab text published by order of the government of the Netherlands.
- Shafii, Muhammad ibn Idris, Islamic Jurisprudence; Shafiis RisalaGood introduction on Shafi'i. Distillation of Shafi'is legal theory.