Islamic Law

Sharia-compliance is the raison detre of Islamic banks. All of their instruments and activities should be based on sharia principles, which unfortu...

What is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secular life? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a searc...

In Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy laws are defended on the grounds that they are based on Islamic Sharia and intended to protect religion...

Taking an inter-disciplinary approach which straddles law, anthropology sociology and women's studies, Mir-Hosseini shows how women can turn even t...

Economic diplomacy is a multifaceted tool that European countries, both individually and collectively through the EU, use to promote their economic...

This collection investigates the conflictual relationship between the Islamic world and Western civilization, looking at its history as key to unde...

Embark on a journey through the various stages of life, from marriage to divorceand widowhood, to witness how women living within the Islamic tradi...

The publication of The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, Ninth-Tenth Centuries C.E., first as a University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertati...

This book is the first historical analysis of those parts of Islamic legal theory that deal with the language of revelation, and a milestone in rec...

In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the events of 9/11, 7/7, the War on Terror and the Caliphate and atrocities of the so-called ...

Within the global phenomenon of the (re)emergence of religion into issues of public debate, one of the most salient issues confronting contemporary...

This book explores the contentious topic of womens rights in Muslim-majority countries, with a specific focus on Iran and the Iranian womens moveme...

Can Islamic finance save the global system? Islamic Finance and the New Financial System describes how the adoption of Islamic finance principles ...

Human Rights and Reformist Islam' critiques traditional Islamic approaches to the question of compatibility between human rights and Islam, and arg...

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

This book surveys secondary literature on the biggest questions that have animated the field of Islamic law since its beginnings. It offers scholar...

The relationship between Islamic law and society is an important issue in Iran under the Islamic Republic. Although Islamic law was a pivotal eleme...

In the post-9/11 environment, the figure of the Muslim woman is at the forefront of global politics. Her representation is often articulated within...

Islamic finances phenomenal growth owes to the Shariah compliant nature of its financial instruments. Shariah forbids the charging of interest (Rib...

This volume exposes some of the various issues raised in relation to Muslim communities in Europe by putting the intellectual and legal traditions ...

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

Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real world of todays capitalist corporations and the alternatives? In this overview of G...

In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the events of 9/11, 7/7, the War on Terror and the Caliphate and atrocities of the so-called ...

A Muslim Reformist in Communist Yugoslavia examines the Islamic modernist thought of Husein ozo, a prominent Balkan scholar. Born at a time when th...

This volume presents an analysis of controversial events and issues shaping a rapidly changing international legal, political, and social landscape...

This book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of ift to better understand the process of issuing fatws in Muslim and non-Muslim cou...

Cohabiting couples and those entering religious-only marriages all too often end up with inadequate legal protection when the relationship ends. Ye...

Imam Nawawi's commentary on Sahih Muslim is one of the most highly regarded works in Islamic thought and literature. Accepted by every sunni scho...

This book describes the theories related to corporate and Shari'ah governance frameworks of the global Islamic finance industry. It provides the co...

This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the principles and practices of family laws in Pakistan, incorporating the most recent c...

Food trucks announcing halal proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch? Here Middle Eas...

Food trucks announcing halal proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch? Here Middle Eas...

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

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

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Islamic law is one of the major legal systems in the world today, yet it is often misunderst...

Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary...