A ae MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC Ud SNCAU ESE LOS NNI LEGAT. THRORISTS’ =MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC PRAGMATICS Sunni Legal Theorists’ Models of Textual Communication Mohamed Mohamed Yunis Ali R Routledge EQ. ters rene Groun LONDON AND NEW YORKFirst Published in 2000 by Routledge Richmond, Surrey 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York. NY 10017 Transferred to Digital Printing 2009 © 2000 Mohamed Mohamed Yunis Ali ‘Typeset in Sabon by LaserScript Ltd, Mitcham, Surrey All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers, British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book has been requested ISBN10: 0-7007-1102-3 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-415-56777-7 (hbk) ISBN 13: 978-0-7007-1102—4 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-56777-0 (pbk) Publisher’s Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent.