Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Comparing Islam and Judaism in particular; The monotheist religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam; Which Judaism, which Islam, and why?; Category formations: comparing incomparables; The authoritative legal documents of Judaism and Islam; The Written and the Oral Torah: scripture, the Mishnah and the Talmuds; Islamic counterparts; Conclusions; The intellectual sources of the law; Islam: consensus, reasoning, exceptions; Judaic counterparts: exegesis, logic, argument, dialectics; Conclusions; The working of the law: institutions |