Islamic Law

In pieces drawn from over the course of his distinguished career, pre-eminent historian Roy Mottahedeh explores such diverse topics as the social b...

Bringing together essays on topics related to Islamic law, this book is composed of articles by prominent legal scholars and historians of Islam. T...

Abd al-Rahman b. Amr al-Awzai (c.707774) was Umayyad Syrias most influential jurist, part of a generation of scholars who began establishing the fi...

Since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, jihad has become symbolic of the confrontation between Muslims and the West. According to...

The model of marriage constructed in classical Islamic jurisprudence rests on patriarchal ethics that privilege men. This worldview persists in gen...

This book is a selection of forty beautiful Hadith from Sahih Muslim. The Hadith are accompanied with an easy to follow explanation accessible to r...

This book is a selection of forty beautiful Hadith from Sunan Abu Dawud. The Hadith are accompanied with an easy to follow explanation accessible t...

This book is a selection of forty beautiful Hadith from Jami al-Tirmidhi. The Hadith are accompanied by an easy-to-follow explanation accessible to...

This book is a selection of forty beautiful Hadith from Sunan Ibn Majah. The Hadith are accompanied with an easy to follow explanation accessible t...

This book is a selection of forty beautiful Hadith from Sunan al-Nasai. The Hadith are accompanied with an easy to follow explanation accessible to...

This book is a selection of forty beautiful Hadith from Sahih al-Bukhari. The Hadith are accompanied with an easy to follow explanation accessible ...

This book is the first authoritative guide to Sukuk, or sharia-compliant securities. The book offers clear guidance for legal and finance professio...

This Nutshell discusses the manner in which Islamic law is applied and adjudicated in modern states. This includes the enactment of legislation der...

For over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evo...

Islamic substantive law, otherwise called branches of the law (furū al-fiqh), covers the textual provisions and jurisprudential rulings relating t...

Islamic law influences the lives of Muslims today as aspects of the law are applied as part of State law in different forms in many areas of the wo...

In early 20th-century Yemen, a sizable Jewish population was subject to sumptuary laws and social restrictions. Jews regularly came into contact wi...

The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leaders...

In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas. An eleven-volume set, it is ...

Which way will Egypt go now that Husni Mubarak's authoritarian regime has been swept from power? Will it become an Islamic theocracy similar to Ira...

For over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evo...

This book presents an in-depth exploration of the administration of justice during Islams founding period, 6321250 CE. Inspired by the scholarship ...

Lex Petrolea and International Investment Law: Law and Practice in the Persian Gulf offers readers a detailed analysis of jurisprudence on the sett...

In Peaceful Islamist Mobilization in the Muslim World: What Went Right , Julie Chernov Hwang presents a compelling and innovative new theory and fr...

The first comprehensive treatment of Islamic contract law in the English language, Islamic Contract Law serves as both a reference work and an auth...

In a world where conventional interest-based finance is the dominant framework, Islamic banking faces many challenges. This book is the first to ad...

Mohammad Fadel's scholarship on Islamic law and legal history ranges from medieval institutions and the history of Islamic legal interpretation to ...

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

'A really fun, fast-paced read in an interesting universe.' Cat Rambo, author of Beasts of TabatDate: 27th September 2188. Vessel: The Alcatraz 2. ...

The main theme of A Ray of the Qurn is reflected in Sayyed Mahmoud Taleghani's unique and all-encompassing approach of using root definitions of ke...

This wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book tells the story of the Arab diaspora within the context of British and Dutch colonialism, unpackin...

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mothers unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afgh...

This title examines the usefulness, challenges and limits of ijtihad for Muslims today. The resurgence of Islam, geopolitical crises involving Musl...

One of the characteristics of the 'conservative religious revival' movements in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is the commitment to a scriptural t...

This is an in-depth and insightful study of Shari'ah governance from a theoretical and practical perspective. Shari'ah governance has a profound in...

The Fatigue of the Shari'a places on a continuum two kinds of debates: debates in the Islamic tradition about the end of access to divine guidance ...

Dieses Buch analysiert das Verhältnis zwischen dem jemenitischen König Imam Yay amd al-Dn und den Juden:Jüdinnen Sanaas aus islamrechtlicher Perspe...

The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture is an outstanding inter- and transdisciplinary reference source to key topics, problems...

Islamic legal theory (usūl al-fiqh) is literally regarded as the roots of the law whilst Islamic jurists consider it to be the basis of Islamic ju...

Malaysia and Brunei both apply a complex hybrid body of positive law to their Malay Muslim majorities. This volume traces the development of a uniq...

The substantive regulations and legal institutions through which the state manages the religions of its Malay minority in contemporary Singapore ar...