Systems of law: Islamic law

The meanings and contexts of Shari'a are the subject of both curiosity and misunderstanding by non-Muslims.

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

Islamic commercial and financial practice has not experienced the trial-and-error style of development that has characterised the development of the common law in the English-speaking world.

What are the views, principles and regulations of the Islamic tradition concerning refugee status?

How Islam treats women is one of the most hotly contested questions of our times.

Taking an inter-disciplinary approach which straddles law, anthropology sociology and women's studies, Mir-Hosseini shows how women can turn even the most patriarchal elements of Islamic law to their advantage and achieve their personal marital aims.

A sea change has taken place in Islamic legal studies.

Islamic law (the Shari'a) and its application is a central issue in contemporary Islamic politics and culture.

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.

Toward an Islamic Reformation is an ambitious attempt to modernize Islamic law, calling for reform of the historical formulations of Islamic law, commonly known as Shari'a that is perceived by many Muslims to be part of the Islamic faith.

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

Over the course of the twentieth century, most Middle East states adopted a shari'a-based system for recognizing marriages.

Understanding Islamic law is crucial not only for Muslims, but for non-Muslims who work with Muslims in legal contexts as well as for anyone wanting to understand the role of Islam in the world today.

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.

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.

There is a long and rich history of opinion centred on female prayer leadership in Islam that has occupied the minds of theologians and jurists alike.

There is a long and rich history of opinion centred on female prayer leadership in Islam that has occupied the minds of theologians and jurists alike.

The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with which he produced his innumerable writings, for his remarkable achievements in the development of science, and for his reputation as a visionary (not to mention sorcerer) and alchemist.

This collection investigates the conflictual relationship between the Islamic world and Western civilization, looking at its history as key to understanding its present.

This book is an introduction to the fundamentals of Islamic law and its history.

The first systematic treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law.

The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state.

This book is an introduction to the fundamentals of Islamic law and its history.

In this book, Colin Imber has put together and edited four previously unpublished essays in the field of Islamic law by Norman Calder.

An exploration of Islamic law from the perspective of women and gender.

This book, first published in 2006, is an account of the theory and practice of Islamic criminal law.

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

The history of Islamic law from pre-Islamic times across three centuries.

This book provides an overview of the practice of Islamic finance.

This book looks at how Muslims in Indonesia struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws.

A penetrating analysis of the relationship between authority, continuity and change in Islamic law.

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

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

Indonesia's criminal law system faces major challenges.

Indonesia's criminal law system faces major challenges.

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

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

Examining the twelve-decade legal conflict of government bans on religious garb worn by teachers in U.

Examining the twelve-decade legal conflict of government bans on religious garb worn by teachers in U.

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

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

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

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

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

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

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

Personal status laws remain a highly politicized area of debate in the Middle East, as the arena in which the contentious issues of women's rights, religion and minority groups meet.

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The increasingly transnational nature of terrorist activities compels the international community to strengthen the legal framework in which counter-terrorism activities should occur at every level, including that of intergovernmental organizations.