Systems of law: Islamic law

This book offers unique insights into Islamic law, considering its theoretical perspectives alongside its practical application in daily Muslim life.

The 1,400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shiis is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iranwith no apparent end in sight.

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

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.

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

In this book, Colin Imber has put together and edited four previously unpublished essays in the field of Islamic law by Norman Calder.

While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so-called "e;rentier states"e; where taxes are very low and oil wealth subsidizes the needs of citizens, are largely unaffected by such movements.

Islamic Financial Economy and Islamic Banking, is a thorough, deeply conceptual, analytical and applied work in the area of epistemological foundation of Islamic world-system.

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

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.

In February 2018, the 'Independent Review on Sharia Law in England and Wales' was published, headed by Professor Mona Siddiqui.

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.

This book analyses the general interaction between international law and Islamic law in the Muslim world today.

Islamic State's Online Activity and Responses provides a unique examination of Islamic State's online activity at the peak of its "e;golden age"e; between 2014 and 2017 and evaluates some of the principal responses to this phenomenon.

This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh.

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

This book provides an introduction to the laws of the Middle East, defining the contours of a field of study that deserves to be called 'Middle Eastern law'.

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.

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This is a new examination of how Shari'a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including for example human rights and family law.

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

Should an employee be allowed to wear a religious symbol at work?

This book offers a new theoretical perspective on the thought of the great fifteenth-century Egyptian polymath, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d.

Drawing on both religious and secular sources, this challenging book argues that divinely ordained law is frequently misinterpreted by Muslim authorities at the expense of certain groups, including women.

Written from an ethnographic perspective, this book investigates the socio-legal aspects of Islamic jurisprudence in Gaza-Palestine.

This book discusses the nature and theories which govern systems of Islamic finance including its most distinctive features and its relationship with conventional financial institutions.

In Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: A Fresh Interpretation, Mohammad Kamali considers problems associated with and proposals for reform of the hudud punishments prescribed by Islamic criminal law, and other topics related to crime and punishment in Shariah.

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

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.

This volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions of legal pluralism.

Armed non-state actors (ANSAs) often have economic aims that international law needs to respond to.

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

Ein Streifzug durch 1400 Jahre IslamMehr als eine Milliarde Menschen leben heute in Rechtssystemen, die sich auf die Scharia berufen.

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.

In Religious Liberty in Western and Islamic Law: Toward a World Legal Tradition, Kristine Kalanges argues that differences between Western and Islamic legal formulations of religious freedom are attributable, in substantial part, to variations in their respective religious and intellectual histories.

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.

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.

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

TheRisale-i Nur Collection is full of general principles, not only related to the Islamic Jurisprudence but also to all the fields of Islam or Islamic life and Islamic branches of knowledge.

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

This book advances a constructive theological approach to the controversial issues of sharī''a, public law, and secularism in Christian-Muslim relations.

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

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.

Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia.