ABSTRACT:
The book gives to its readers a copmlete picture of the gradual development of Zakat Law, a legal institution of Islam.Tracing its evolution from the period of the Prophet, the book concentrates on the development of this institution during Ist. century A.H., the most creative and decicive period of Islamic History. Discovering the process of Ijtihad involved in law making and in the extention and applicatin of the law during the socio-economic conditions of the time the book pointed to the sources and methodologies which might have been adopted during the entire course of Ijtihad.The author's careful reflections and systematic argumentation are based on the evidences drived from the earliest avaliable and original sources, some of them were not readily available before 1975 and hence were not used in any other work of early history of islamic law.
