Etudes sur l'islam classique et l'Afrique du Nord

Following upon his first collection of the articles of Robert Brunschvig (Etudes d'lslamologie, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1976), Abdel-Majid Turki has here assembled a further selection which includes all the longer pieces omitted from the first, and some half a dozen published since. Accordingly, we now have an almost complete assemblage of the writings of the distinguished founder and directeur honoraire of Studia Islamica to set alongside his great work, La Berberie orientale sous les Hafsides (2 vols., Paris, 1940, 1947). Historians of Islamic law will be best served but not necessarily best pleased, since historians pure and simple have learned to profit from his analyses of problems in medieval fiqh. For them in particular, the Variorum volume reproduces the masterly 'Ibn 'Abdalh'akam et la conquete de l'Afrique du Nord par les Arabes', a discussion of the edition and translation of the relevant portion of Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam's Futiuh Misr by Gateau with profound implications for the early history of Islam, not only in the Maghrib. -- from http://www.jstor.org (Dec. 15, 2015).