Law and education in medieval Islam : studies in memory of Professor George Makdisi / edited by Joseph E. Lowry, Devin J. Stewart and Shawkat M. Toorawa.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Colleges of law and the institutions of medieval Sunni Islam / Joseph Lowry, Devin Stewart, and Shawkat Toorawa -- Nomos kai paideia : a bibliography of George Makdisi's publications / Shawkat Toorawa -- Discipline and duty in a medieval Muslim elementary school : Ibn Hạjar al-Haytamī's Taqrīr al-maqāl / Sherman Jackson -- The etiquette of learning in the early Islamic study circle / Christopher Melchert -- The doctorate of Islamic law in Mamluk Egypt and Syria / Devin Stewart -- A portrait of ʻAbd al-Latị̄f al-Baghdādī's education and instruction / Shawkat Toorawa -- Medieval Islamic legal education as reflected in the works of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī / Bernard Weiss -- The reception of al-Shāfiʻī's concept of amr and nahy in the thought of his student al-Muzanī / Joseph Lowry -- Islamic education and the transmission of knowledge in Muslim Sicily / William Granara -- The madrasah and the Islamization of Anatolia before the Ottomans / Gary Leiser.