Systems of law: Islamic law

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting.

Asks and answers the hardest questions about the relationship between British Islam and English law using classical pluralist theory.

The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.

In Coercion and Responsibility in Islam, Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurists from four intellectual traditions argue about the thorny issues that coercion raises about responsibility for one's action.

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.

This book examines Islam and women's everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy.

This volume, originally published in 1925, outlines the historical development of the Muslim law of inheritance in pre-Islamic Law.

The question of how Islamic law regulates the notions of just recourse to and just conduct in war has long been the topic of heated controversy, and is often subject to oversimplification in scholarship and journalism.

A concise study of the practices in Islamic commercial law Filling a gap in the current literature, Islamic Commercial Law is the only book available that combines the theory and practice of Islamic commercial law in an English-language text.

In Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy laws are defended on the grounds that they are based on Islamic Shari'a and intended to protect religion.

During the last ten years the Islamic banking sector has grown rapidly, at an international level, as well as in individual jurisdictions including the UK.

This volume examines the important question of whether or not international human rights and Islamic law are compatible.

The word 'Halal' translates to 'permissible' in English, though it encapsulates a broader meaning that goes beyond permissibility and impermissibility.

The role of women in politics in the Gulf is a much-debated and often little-understood subject in the West.

Modern scholars of most major religious traditions, who seek gender egalitarian interpretations of their scriptural texts, confront a common dilemma: how can they produce interpretations that are at once egalitarian and authoritative, within traditions that are deeply patriarchal?

This book contains an in-depth examination of the Islamic headscarf cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and places these against the background of the Islamophobia existing across Europe.

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British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians.

This book seeks to interrogate the classical fiqh formulation on gender and homicide with a view to exploring further the debate on whether the so-called gender injustice in Islamic law is a human creation or attributable to the divine sources of the Qur'an and Sunnah.

Ahmed El Shamsy''s The Canonization of Islamic Law is a detailed history of the birth of classical Islamic law.

Shari''a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari''a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.

This volume critically analyses Muslim Personal Law (MPL) in India and offers an alternative perspective to look at MPL and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) debate.

The interest in improving Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) outcomes among stakeholders of Islamic banking and finance has become front and centre in the discussions relating to Islamic sustainable finance.

This book explores how Islam can impact the structures and performance of firms, financial institutions and capital markets across a range of countries and industries.

No corporation is enthusiastic about paying tax, yet Islamic banks in Indonesia voluntarily pay corporate zakat.

British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians.

This book underlines the mutability of Islamic law and attempts to relate its substantive and institutional varieties and transformations to social, political, economic and other historical circumstances.

This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.

The relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law has been the subject of considerable, and heated, debate in recent years.

This book examines the intersection between contemporary International Commercial Arbitration and Shari?

This book is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law.

In the post-9/11 environment, the figure of the Muslim woman is at the forefront of global politics.

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia.

Indonesia's criminal law system faces major challenges.

The interest in improving Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) outcomes among stakeholders of Islamic banking and finance has become front and centre in the discussions relating to Islamic sustainable finance.

The relationship between Islamic law and society is an important issue in Iran under the Islamic Republic.

This book traces the evolution of organisational activism among Muslim women in India.

With religion at centre stage in conflicts worldwide, and in social, ethical and geo-political debates, this book takes a timely look at relations between law and religion.

This book discusses court-oriented legal reforms across Asia with a focus on the creation of 'new courts' over the last 20 years.

During the 20th century many countries embarked on a process of constitutional secularization by which the role of religion gradually became limited.

This book considers the rarely studied but pervasive concepts of doubt that medieval Muslim jurists used to resolve problematic criminal cases.

This book explores how Islam can impact the structures and performance of firms, financial institutions and capital markets across a range of countries and industries.

If you've ever read a news story about radical Islam, you've probably seen "e;sharia law"e; mentioned.

In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas.