Islamic Law

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...