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The Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (YIMEL) is the leading English language journal covering contemporary Islamic laws and laws of the Middle East. Practitioners and academics dealing with the Middle East can turn to YIMEL for an instant source of information on the developments in the Middle East region and wider Muslim world. YIMEL covers Islamic and non-Islamic legal subjects, including the laws themselves, of some twenty Arab and other Islamic countries. Focusing on YIMEL's role in publishing and disseminating ground-breaking and novel research on Islamic law, Volume 19 includes a Special Edition on the theme of Islamic Law and Empire consisting of a dedicated Preface and articles in Part I, as well as other contributions on legal developments in the Middle East and South Asia, important judgements and book reviews, assembled in Part II. The publication's practical features include: - articles on current topics, - the text of a selection of important case judgments, - book reviews. Please click here for the online version including the abstracts of the articles of The Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law.

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Author:   Martin Lau ,  Faris Nasrallah
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Volume:   19
Weight:   0.944kg
ISBN:  

9789004363168

ISBN 10:   9004363165
Pages:   494
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Notes on Contributors Part 1: Special Edition: Islamic Law and Empire Preface to Special Edition: Islamic Law and Empire Jihad Jurisprudence in Al-Andalus: a Case Study of the Zahiri Ibn Hazm Nesrine Badawi Where Did the Akhunds Go? Islamic Legal Experts and the Transformation of the Socio-Legal Order in the Russian Empire Rozaliya Garipova `I Picked these Flowers of Knowledge for You': Jesuit Rules of Statecraft for the Emperor of Mughal India Uros Zver Law and Coloniality of Empire: Colonial Encounter and Normative Orderings in the Indian Sub-Continent Raza Saeed Modern Law and Otherness: Edouard Lambert's Representations of Islamic Law Veronica Corcodel Co-existence of Shari'a and the Modern State: A Historical Perspective from South Asia Muhammad Zubair Abbasi `Translating' the 1814 French Charter: Al-Tahtawi's New Semiotics of Law and Governance Gianluca P. Parolin Memories of Empire in a World of Nation-States: Imagining Alternative Postmodern Legalities through Muslim Legal Histories Azeezah Kanji Modern Islamic International Law between Accommodation and Resistance: The Case of Israel and BDS Mohammad Fadel Part 2: Articles Dealing with Personal and Non-Litigious Matters of Non-Muslim Iranians under the Iranian Legal System M.A. Ansaripour Property Law in Saudi Arabia: A Reconstruction Chibli Mallat Article 257 of the UAE Penal Code: Inter-jurisdictional Conflict and the Battleground of Arbitration Faris Nasrallah More Law, More Crime? The Pitfalls of Pakistan's Illegal Dispossession Act 2005 Martin Lau Part 3: Cases Decision on the Arab Republic of Egypt Appeal Concerning the Sale of Tiran and Sanafir Islands, Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court, Writ Petition: 74236/62 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and 15 Others vs. Federation of Pakistan through Secretary Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and Others Part 4: Book Reviews Hassan Arab, Lara Hammoud, Graham Lovett (eds.), Summaries of UAE Court Decisions on Arbitration 2012-2016 Including DIFC Court Decisions (Second Edition), ICC: ICC Services Publication, 2017, 180 p. Faris Nasrallah Damien Kingsbury (ed.), Western Sahara: International law, justice and natural resources, Routledge: London and New York, 2016, 142 p. Faris Nasrallah Index

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Martin Lau is the Dean and Professor of Law at the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law of LUMS in Lahore, Pakistan, on leave from the Law School of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) until 2018. As a Barrister at Essex Court Chambers, Dr. Lau regularly advises on South Asian, Middle Eastern and Islamic Law. Faris Nasrallah is an international arbitration lawyer and Arab laws specialist. Having obtained an LLB from SOAS and a Masters in Law from the University of Cambridge, he qualified as a Solicitor in England & Wales (2012). In 2018 Faris was a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Germany.

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