Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chap. 1. Modern scholarship and reorienting the approach to rebellion -- Chap. 2. The doctrinal foundations of the laws of rebellion -- Chap. 3. The historical context and the creative response -- Chap. 4. The rise of the juristic discourse on rebellion : fragmentation -- Chap. 5. The spread of the Islamic law of rebellion from the fourth/tenth to the fifth/eleventh centuries -- Chap. 6. Rebellion, insurgency, and brigandage : the developed positions and the emergence of trends -- Chap. 7. The developed non-Sunni positions -- Chap. 8. Negotiating rebellion in Islamic law -- Works cited -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.