Systems of law: Islamic law

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

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

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

On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shari?

An accessible overview of the religious and social thought of the world''s largest Muslim majority nation.

The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

In the wake of the protests that spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011, Islamist movements of varying political persuasions have risen to prominence.

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

In this book, a judge at the Shari''a Court of Jerusalem explains the religious law of Muslim minorities.

This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shari?

Can Islamic finance save the global system?

This timely book, newly revised for this edition, addresses the question of human rights in the international context, focusing in particular on the interaction between human rights as a value and norm in international relations and Islam as a constituent of political culture in particular societies.

Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real world of today's capitalist corporations and the alternatives?

Words in both law and religion can shape power relationships and are often highly disputed.

Wael Hallaq''s magisterial overview of Shari''a examines the doctrines and practices of Islamic law from the seventh century to the present.

Original Islam investigates the primacy of Madinan Islam and the madhhab (school of law) of its main exponent, Malik ibn Anas.

The question of tolerance and Islam is not a new one.

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.

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How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authorityThe medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority.

How should constitutional design respond to the opportunities and challenges raised by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural differences, and do so in ways that promote democracy, social justice, peace and stability?

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

During the uprisings of late 2010 and 2011 which took place across the Middle East and North Africa, women made up an important part of the crowds protesting.

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

Illustrates the origin and ways of Western hegemony over other civilizations across the world.

Islam is a growing presence practically everywhere in Europe.

Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand?

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

In the post '9/11' legal and political environment, Islam and Muslims have been associated with terrorism.

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.

This intimate portrayal of the devotional life in early medieval Islamic society demonstrates how Islamic law defined holy behavior.

This book focuses on Islamic family law as interpreted and applied by judges in Europe, Australia and North America.

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The Iranian Constitutional Revolution was the twentieth century's first such political movement in the Middle East.

Written in accessible language, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of a topical subject that is being widely debated across Europe.

The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions.

This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies.

How can Muslims be both good citizens of liberal democracies and good Muslims?

National identity and liberal democracy are recurrent themes in debates about Muslim minorities in the West.

Islam encourages business and financial transactions as a way of securing the basic needs for all human beings, but these need to be conducted in accordance with the principles contained in the Qur'an and Sunnah.

Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary laws.

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

The question of tolerance and Islam is not a new one.

In this book, originally published in 1929, Lammens is primarily concerned with the problem of Mohammad's personality and prophetic career - one of the central issues of Islamic history.

In both the West and throughout the Muslim world, Islamic family law is a highly and hotly debated topic.

In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate the changing needs of society.

This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies.