Islamic law books

1685 books were found.

Contemporary Ijtihad: Limits and Controversies

Contemporary Ijtihad: Limits and Controversies

Author: L Ali Khan (Washburn University) ,  Hisham M Ramadan (Kwantlen University)
ISBN: 9780748653256
Format: Online resource
$295.68

Examines the usefulness, challenges and limits of ijtihad for Muslims today. This book explores the limits and controversies...  Read More >>

Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt

Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion, and Everyday...

Author: Kristen Stilt (Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University)
ISBN: 9780199602438
Format: Hardback
$250.95

"Taking a ""law in action"" approach to the study of Islamic law through a focus on the activities of the muhtasib...  Read More >>

Reading the Islamic City: Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

Reading the Islamic City: Discursive Practices and Legal...

Author: Akel Ismail Kahera
ISBN: 9780739110010
Format: Hardback
$129.95

While it seems clear that the shari’ah had a formative influence on property rights, public space and land use,...  Read More >>

God in the Courtroom: The Transformation of Courtroom Oath and Perjury between Islamic and Franco-Egyptian Law

God in the Courtroom: The Transformation of Courtroom...

Author: Guy Bechor
ISBN: 9789004209749
Format: Hardback
$604.56

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Muslim Women and Shari'ah Councils: Transcending the Boundaries of Community and Law

Muslim Women and Shari'ah Councils: Transcending the...

Author: Samia Bano
ISBN: 9781283867399
Format: Electronic book text
$264.00

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Islamic Law on Peasant Usufruct in Ottoman Syria

Islamic Law on Peasant Usufruct in Ottoman Syria

Author: Sabrina Joseph
ISBN: 9781280496264
Format: Electronic book text
$359.04

Drawing on Hanafi legal texts from Ottoman Syria between the 17th and early 19th centuries, this book examines how...  Read More >>

Epistle of the Eloquent Clarification Concerning the Refutation of Ibn Qutayba by Al-Qa?i Al-NU?Man B. Mu?ammad (D. 363/974)

Epistle of the Eloquent Clarification Concerning the...

Author: Avraham Hakim
ISBN: 9781280698613
Format: Electronic book text
$340.56

This book offers an early Shiite/Fatimid controversy against Sunnite scholars in matter of Islamic law. Al-Qadi...  Read More >>

Sharia Versus Freedom

Sharia Versus Freedom

Author: Andrew G Bostom
ISBN: 9781306927819
Format: Electronic book text
$42.21

Author Andrew G. Bostom expands upon his two previous groundbreaking compendia, The Legacy of Jihad and The Legacy...  Read More >>

Islamic Banking and Finance: Definitive Texts and Cases

Islamic Banking and Finance: Definitive Texts and Cases...

Author: O. Masood
ISBN: 9780230338395
Format: Hardback
$330.00

In a world where conventional interest-based finance is the dominant framework, Islamic banking faces many challenges....  Read More >>

The Fatigue of the Shari'a

The Fatigue of the Shari'a

Author: Ahmad Atif Ahmad
ISBN: 9781280583254
Format: Electronic book text
$264.00

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Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

Author: Noah Feldman
ISBN: 9781283540025
Format: Electronic book text
$48.84

Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces...  Read More >>

Questioning Secularism

Questioning Secularism

Author: Hussein Ali Agrama
ISBN: 9781283657501
Format: Undefined
$224.40

The central question of the Arab Spring what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the...  Read More >>

Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide

Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking...

Author: Marshall ,  Shea
ISBN: 9780199812288
Format: Paperback
$119.95

This volume provides the first world survey of the range and effects of such accusations in the contemporary Muslim...  Read More >>

The Palestine Yearbook of International Law, Volume 16 (2010)

The Palestine Yearbook of International Law, Volume...

Author: Ardi Imseis
ISBN: 9789004215276
Format: Hardback
$489.95

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The Development of Islamic Law and Society in the Maghrib: Qadis, Muftis and Family Law

The Development of Islamic Law and Society in the Maghrib:...

Author: David S. Powers
ISBN: 9781409403708
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Features the essays that treat the application of Islamic law in qadi courts in the Maghrib in the period between...  Read More >>

Inheritance: The Laws of Inheritance in Islam

Inheritance: The Laws of Inheritance in Islam

Author: Sohail S Hussaini
ISBN: 9781432782115
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Inheritance: The Laws of Inheritance in Islam As you read the book and understand the distribution of inheritance...  Read More >>

Inheritance: The Laws of Inheritance in Islam

Inheritance: The Laws of Inheritance in Islam

Author: Sohail S Hussaini
ISBN: 9781432782177
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Inheritance: The Laws of Inheritance in Islam As you read the book and understand the distribution of inheritance...  Read More >>

Islamic Renaissance: a New Era has Started

Islamic Renaissance: a New Era has Started

Author: Kassim Ahmad
ISBN: 9780982586723
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Ahmad, a leading figure in modern Islamic Reform movement, diagnoses the multi-faceted problems especially afflicting...  Read More >>

Women in Classical Islamic Law: A Survey of the Sources

Women in Classical Islamic Law: A Survey of the Sources...

Author: Susan Spectorsky
ISBN: 9789004211513
Format: Paperback
$176.88

Drawing on legal and hadith texts from the formative and classical periods of Islamic legal history, this book offers...  Read More >>

A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews Under Early Islam

A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians...

Author: Uriel I. Simonsohn
ISBN: 9780812243499
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era

Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era

Author: Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies Norman Calder (University of Manchester) ,  Colin Imber (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781283331333
Format: Undefined
$522.72

In this book, Colin Imber has put together and edited four previously unpublished essays in the field of Islamic...  Read More >>

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