Islamic law books

This book deals with two different pragmatic approaches to textual communication: (i) the mainstream approach followed...  Read More >>

This important study offers a conceptual analysis of gender and human rights under Islamic law, state law and international...  Read More >>

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This rigorous study of the interpretation and application of personal status law in the Palestinian West Bank (and...  Read More >>

This volume offers an examination of the legal system of Saudi Arabia, not only for its own sake but also as a case...  Read More >>

This volume discusses sharecropping in the Yemen against the background of Islamic law and customary law. Sharecropping...  Read More >>

A collection of sources of Jewish and Islamic law, this book provides analysis of the similarities and the differences...  Read More >>

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This text provides an introductory discussion of issues in Islamic law, justice and society. At the centre of the...  Read More >>

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Social Justice in Islam is perhaps the best known work of Sayyid Qutb, a leading figure in the Muslim Brethren...  Read More >>

Social Justice in Islam is perhaps the best known work of Sayyid Qutb, a leading figure in the Muslim Brethren...  Read More >>

The book covers Muhammadan (Islamic) law.  Read More >>

This book re-examines the basic methodological structure of Islamic law (including its complex relations with the...  Read More >>

This collection of papers addresses the fundamental issues of human rights, democracy, the rule of law and Islam....  Read More >>

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This text is designed to prepare the jurist for the task of the mujtahid, who derives the law and lays down precedents...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the Hanafite school of fiqh which originated in the eight century and is, geographically, the...  Read More >>

This book considers the methods used by Malik in the Muwatta' to derive the judgements of the law from the Qur'an...  Read More >>

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Susan Hirsch's observations of Islamic courts uncover how Muslim women actively use legal processes to transform...  Read More >>

Susan Hirsch's observations of Islamic courts uncover how Muslim women actively use legal processes to transform...  Read More >>

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This volume examines Islamic maritime law and the actual practice of Muslim sailors during the classical period....  Read More >>

This fourth volume of the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law provides a source of reference on legal developments...  Read More >>