The codification episteme and the multiplicity of truth -- Juristic discourse prior to the nineteenth century -- Tatabbuʻ al-rukhaʼ in juristic discourse prior to the nineteenth century -- Talfīq in juristic discourse prior to the nineteenth century -- Court practice prior to the nineteenth century -- Pragmatic eclecticism in court practice: a thousand and one cases -- The sweep of modernity -- Juristic discourse on pragmatic eclecticism in modern Egypt -- Codification and the Arab Spring: can the sharīʻa be restored?
