Systems of law: Islamic law

In this meticulously researched volume, Leonard Wood presents his ground breaking history of Islamic revivalist thought in Islamic law.

This contextual analysis of Islamic financial law challenges our understanding of both Islamic law and global financial markets.

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.

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

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

This thought-provoking book reflects upon key themes in Islamic law and theology, revealing fascinating insights into Islamic ethics.

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

Gender, family law in the Middle East and North Africa indicating change and stasis in context of the Arab spring.

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

This handbook is a detailed reference source comprising original articles covering the origins, history, theory and practice of Islamic law.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

This book provides a critique of current international law-making and draws on a set of principles from Persian philosophers to present an alternative to influence the development of international law-making procedure.

Today there are more Muslims living in diaspora than at any time in history.

What is a contract in Islam?

Comparative law of religions has developed in recent years as a new discipline at the intersection of legal and religious science, of theology and anthropology.

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

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

Indonesia's criminal law system faces major challenges.

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.

Should England adopt shari''a law?

The importance of the rule of law is universally recognised and of fundamental value for most societies.

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.

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

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.

Delving deeper into the soul of Islam and the definition of spirituality, this third volume examines the mainstream path that seekers are expected to follow in order to learn the fundamental concepts of Sufism and the essentials of the Islamic faith.

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

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.

This book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of ifta' to better understand the process of issuing fatwas in Muslim and non-Muslim countries, thus highlighting the connection between context and contemporaneity, on one hand, and the adaptable perception of Islamic law, on the other.

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

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

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

Is there a truly Arab feminist movement?

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

The entanglement of law and religion is reiterated on a daily basis in India.