Systems of law: Islamic law

This book explores the fascinating and complex histories of Islam and China.

Introduces an Islamic theory of social justice to inform the theories and design of global intellectual property regimes.

The current Syrian crisis has its roots in the sectarian nature of the country's multi-religious society.

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

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 considers the transmission of the Sunna through the lens of the great Madinan legal scholar, Imam Malik ibn Anas (d.

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

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Within the Middle East there are a wide range of minority groups outside the mainstream religious and ethnic culture.

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

Can Islamic finance save the global system?

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 volume identifies and elaborates on the significance and functions of the various actors involved in the development of family law in the Middle East.

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

The Hanbali School of Law and Ibn Taymiyyah provides a valuable account of the development of Hanbalite jurisprudence, placing the theoretical and conceptual parameters of this tradition within the grasp of the interested reader.

This book examines the law and its practice in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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

This book provides valuable insights into the practical challenges faced by the nascent Islamic finance industry and compares the Australian experience to developments in the UK.

Few studies exist which deal with Islamic law in practice, and this is among the first such studies in the English language for Islamic Africa.

Introducing undergraduate students to Islamic law, this accessible textbook does not presume legal or technical knowledge.

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

This book considers the transmission of the Sunna through the lens of the great Madinan legal scholar, Imam Malik ibn Anas (d.

This book provides valuable insights into the practical challenges faced by the nascent Islamic finance industry and compares the Australian experience to developments in the UK.

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?

EU enlargement - to countries in Central and Eastern Europe in 2004, the inclusion of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, and increasing debates on Turkey's membership - has dramatically transformed the European Union into a multi-religious space.

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

Indonesia's criminal law system faces major challenges.

This pioneering study is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings.

With the revival of Islamic law and adat (customary) law in the country, this book investigates the history and phenomenon of legal pluralism in Indonesia.

Sharia has been a source of misunderstanding and misconception in both the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.

This book explores how the unique historical development of Islamic Shari'a criminal law alongside English common law in northern Nigeria has created a hybridised criminal legal system through a pluralist dynamic of mutual accommodation.

Centered on legal discourses of Islam''s first six centuries, this book analyzes juristic writings on the topic of rape.

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.

It is said that the COVID-19 pandemic has turned back the poverty clock.

This book is an urban ethnographic study of several Muslim women''s organisations in northern India.

This book draws on the work of Rawls to explore the interaction between faith, law and the right to religious freedom in post-Soeharto Indonesia, the world's largest democracy after India and the United States.

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

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

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

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.

This book explores the fascinating and complex histories of Islam and China.

This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam.

The essays brought together in Islam, Law and Identity are the product of a series of interdisciplinary workshops that brought together scholars from a plethora of countries.

Is there a truly Arab feminist movement?

Peaceful legal and political 'changing of the guards' is taken for granted in developed democracies, but is not evident everywhere.

Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation.

In the recent past, Islamic finance has made an impressive case on the banking scene by becoming an alternative to the popular conventional financial systems, spurring a lively academic debate on how the Islamic finance industry can expand its services to cover the poor.