Islamic law books

Ignaz Goldziher wrote his book Die Zahiriten in 1883. The English translation of this standard work on Islamic...  Read More >>

The Risala of al-Shafii (d. 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in...  Read More >>

The sharia is a set of traditional laws that define a Muslim's obligations to God and his fellow human beings. Westerners...  Read More >>

This popular book dispels the ambiguities surrounding the honorable Shari'ah, and to fulfill the essential needs...  Read More >>

In this French edition, the author compares and contrasts the Christian belief in intercession and adoration with...  Read More >>

The need to unite the family and to ensure its happiness was felt by all Muslims, and the search for a solution...  Read More >>

Original Islam investigates the primacy of Madinan Islam and the madhhab (school of law) of its main exponent, Malik...  Read More >>

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

This is an examination of how Shari’a - the Islamic concept of divine law, affects public policy both theoretically...  Read More >>

The Pillars of Islam is the first authoritative English translation of the Da'a'im al-Islam, considered by the Musta...  Read More >>

The Papyrus Collection in Vienna is the largest of its kind in the world. The Austrian National Library owns about...  Read More >>

This book is methodologically unique in scholarly literature on Muslim society  Read More >>

This volume addresses the structural interrelations of Islamic theoretical and practical legal reasoning, based...  Read More >>

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Ramadan brings together essays to explain the history of Islamic law and its role in the contemporary world.  Read More >>

The Islamic Shari'a as a phrase has two scope of meanings. Generally and widely construed it denotes everything...  Read More >>

This study focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh...  Read More >>

This publication examines how a medieval Syrian Shāfiʿī jurist, Ibn Qāḍī Shuhbah (d. 851/1448), depicted the formation,...  Read More >>

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The Hidayah represents the refined, distilled and authentic version of a legal tradition developed over many centuries....  Read More >>

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Vous ne vous etes jamais demande: Qu'est-ce la purification du soi (tazkiyat al-nafs/tassawwouf)? Quelles sont les...  Read More >>

This volume explores the recent decision by Egypt to constitutionalize sharīʿa and analyzes the Egyptian judiciary’s...  Read More >>

Suitable for practitioners and academics dealing with the Middle East, this title provides information on the developments...  Read More >>

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