Systems of Law

Natural law has long been considered the traditional source of Roman Catholic canon law. However, new scholarship is critical of this approach as i...

Crises are never the best of times and the era of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) easily qualifies as one of the worst of times. As a professo...

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

In this thought-provoking book, Mona Siddiqui reflects upon key themes in Islamic law and theology. These themes, which range through discussions a...

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

This book looks at how Islamic law was practiced in Russia from the conquest of the empire''s first Muslim territories in the mid-1500s to the Russ...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic title I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Why is the term shari?a-the mention of whi...

Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone or marginal frontier, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first M...

This book looks at fatwa in Indonesia during the period following the fall of President Suharto. It is an in-depth exploration of three fatwa-makin...

How and why have women come to play a central role in the political project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between Islamic and se...

Islamic Family Law is a practical book which assists practitioners in meeting the needs of clients who wish to follow Muslim (Shar'ia) law - how to...

The Reconciliation of the Fundamentals of Islamic Law, or al-Muwafaqat fi Usul Al-Sharai'a, written by Ibrahim ibn Musa Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi is an ...

This book traces the emergence and development of the idea of literal meaning in Islamic legal hermeneutics. Literal meaning is what a text means i...

In this study, Robert Reilly provides a careful and critical assessment of the prospects for dialogue between the Catholic Church and Islam. In par...

From property law to delict and unjustified enrichment, this textbook focuses on those areas of Roman law that have been most influential on Scots ...

Al centro di questo studio ci sono la comunità italica di Banzi, la colonia greca di Taranto ed i loro rispettivi statuti, incisi su bronzo nella p...

Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, a...

Agrippina the Younger held a unique position in the first Roman imperial family. As great niece of Tiberius, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius a...

Pre-modern Muslim jurists drew a clear distinction between the nurturing and upkeep of children, or 'custody', and caring for the child's education...

For over a century, intellectual property (IP) regimes have been justified using Western philosophical theories rooted in the idea that IP must rew...

Contempt of court has been aptly described as the Proteus of the legal world, assuming an almost infinite diversity of forms. Its central concern i...

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...