Systems of law: Islamic law

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

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

Dupret explores how the concept of positive law operated in the Muslim world.

Dupret explores how the concept of positive law operated in the Muslim world.

Examines a complex global legal problem to demonstrate a compelling method for comparative legal, cultural, and social understanding.

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

Offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms.

Offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms.

This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.

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

Explores single men and women in the Roman world, their ways of life and their reasons for remaining unmarried.

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.

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

This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.

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

Constituting Religion examines how constitutional provisions for both Islam and liberal rights catalyze conflicts over religion in Malaysia and feed a ''rights-versus-rites'' binary.

Constituting Religion examines how constitutional provisions for both Islam and liberal rights catalyze conflicts over religion in Malaysia and feed a ''rights-versus-rites'' binary.

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

Shows that the shari''a and Islamic law are compatible with contemporary international human rights laws and norms, and appropriate for use in Muslim societies.

Shows that the shari''a and Islamic law are compatible with contemporary international human rights laws and norms, and appropriate for use in Muslim societies.

Ahmed El Shamsy''s The Canonization of Islamic Law is a detailed history of the birth of classical Islamic law.

Ahmed El Shamsy''s The Canonization of Islamic Law is a detailed history of the birth of classical Islamic law.

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

Should England adopt shari''a law?

Should England adopt shari''a law?

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

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

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

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

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

This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law.

This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law.

This book critically examines different forms of petroleum contracts, the historical perspective of the oil and gas industry and the political economy of the petroleum development in Iran.

This book critically examines different forms of petroleum contracts, the historical perspective of the oil and gas industry and the political economy of the petroleum development in Iran.

This book explores how Islam can impact the structures and performance of firms, financial institutions and capital markets across a range of countries and industries.

This book explores how Islam can impact the structures and performance of firms, financial institutions and capital markets across a range of countries and industries.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

This book explores relations between state, religion and law in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This book explores relations between state, religion and law in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.