Islamic Law

For more than two decades the United States has responded to global terrorism primarily as a physical threat, avoiding direct confrontation with th...

By pairing a scholar of Islamic law with a scholar of Jewish law, a unique dynamic is created, and new perspectives are made possible. These new pe...

The Reconciliation of the Fundamentals of Islamic Law or Al-Muwafaqat fi Usul al-Shari'a, written by Ibrahim ibn Musa Abu Isaq al-Shaibi, is an inn...

This book contains three important Arabic treatises from the fourth and fifth centuries of Islamic history, published here in English translation f...

If justice is an intrinsic value in Islam, why have women been treated as second-class citizens in Islamic legal tradition? Today, the idea of gen...

This book by renowned scholar and recognised authority on Islam, Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, is a discourse on the legal position ...

This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved ...

Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generall...

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates ...