I was honored to be asked to review Walter Young’s monumental work The Dialectical Forge for Der Islam.

Review of Walter Edward Young, The Dialectical Forge: Juridical Disputation and the Evolution of Islamic Law (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017). Der Islam 102, no. 1 (2025): 326–331.

The published review is available online at De Gruyter Brill.

The prepublication text is available here as a PDF.