Aharon Layish (1933-2022), Ph.D. (1973), Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has published extensively on modern trends in Islamic law with special reference to Israel; Islamization of tribal customary law in Libya and the Judean Desert; Muslim and Druze waqf and testamentary waqf; marriage, divorce, and succession in the Muslim and Druze family; the Mahdī’s legal methodology; and reinstatement of Islamic law in Sudan.

• In Memoriam Aharon Layish (1933-2022), Ron Shaham and David S. PowersAcknowledgmentsNote from the PublisherIntroductionPart 1 Interplay between Sharīʿa and Tribal Law1. Customary khulʿ as reflected in the sijill of the Libyan Sharīʿa courts2. Interplay between Tribal and Sharʿī Law: A Case of Tibbāwī Blood Money in the Sharīʿa Court of Kufra3. Shahādat naql in the Judicial Practice in Modern Libya4. Islamization of custom as reflected in awards of tribal arbitrators in the Judaean desert5. The Qāḍī’s Role in the Islamization of Sedentary Tribal Society6. Dār ʿadl – Symbiosis of Custom and Sharīʿa in a Tribal Society in Process of Sedentarization7. The fatwā as an instrument of the Islamization of a tribal society in process of sedentarizationPart 2 Legal Methodologies in Sudan8. The Sudanese Mahdī’s Legal Methodology and its Ṣūfī Inspiration9. The Legal Methodology of the Mahdi in the Sudan, 1881-1885: Issues in Marriage and Divorce10. Ḥasan al-Turābī (1932– ) Part 3 Modern Trends in Islamic Law11. The Transformation of the Sharīʿa from Jurists’ Law to Statutory Law in the Contemporary Muslim World12. Islamic Law in the Modern World: Nationalization, lslamization, ReinstatementPart 4 Waqf, Testamentary Waqf and Bequests13. Waqfs of Awlād al-Nās in Aleppo in the Late Mamlūk Period as Reflected in a Family Archive14. Waqfs and Ṣūfī Monasteries in the Ottoman Policy of Colonization: Sulṭān Selīm I’s Waqf of 1516 in favour of Dayr al-Asad15. The Mālikī Family Waqf according to Wills and Waqfiyyāt16. The Family Waqf and the Sharʿī Law of Succession in Modern Times17. Bequests as an Instrument for accommodating Inheritance Rules: Israel as a Case Study18. The Muslim Waqf in IsraelPart 5 Islamic Law in a Non-Muslim State19. The Heritage of Ottoman Rule in the Israeli Legal System: The Concept of Umma and Millet20. Adaptation of a Jurists’ Law to Modern Times in an Alien Environment: The Case of the Sharīʿa in IsraelIndex