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Epistle on Legal Theory: Al-Shafii's Risalah golden domes and silver lanters opens up the vastness ofThe Risalah is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and a foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad Ibn Idris al Shafii (d. 204 H 820 AD), was the eponym of the Shafii school of legal thought, one of the four in Sunni Islam. This work offers the first systematic treatment in Arabic of key issues in Islamic legal thought. These include a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation,