Leonard Wood lectured at Harvard University on Middle Eastern political and intellectual history and is a former research fellow of the Islamic Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and an M.Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University. He is a practicing attorney in the United States specializing in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets.
* Introduction
* Section I: Origins of Islamic Legal Revivalism
* 1: The Reception of European Law in Political and Social Context
* 2: Early Islamic Legal Revivalism and National Complacency
* 3: The Sharia Bar Association Journal and the Islamic Turn
* Section II: European Law and Imperialist Campaigns for Islamic Legal
Reform
* 4: Foreign Interventions in Islamic Law
* 5: The Long Arms of Legal Thought from Algeria, France, and Germany
* 6: The Comparativist Program for Islamic Legal Reform
* Section III: Transformations in Education and Scholarship
* 7: Education and Scholarship in Franco-Eygptian and French Law before
1923
* 8: Education and Scholarship in Islamic Law, 1868-1923
* 9: The Flourishing of Advanced Studies after 1923
* Section IV: New Forms of Islamic Legal Thought
* 10: The Origins of "General Theory" in Islamic Legal Thought
* Epilogue
* Conclusion
