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Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E.
Inbunden, 1997
2593 kr
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The Sunni schools of law are named for jurisprudents of the eighth and ninth centuries, but they did not actually function so early. The main division at that time was rather between adherents of ra'y and ḥadīth. No school had a regular means of forming students.Relying mainly on biographical …
Sanhuri Code, and the Emergence of Modern Arab Civil Law (1932 to 1949)
Av Guy Bechor
Inbunden, 2007
2604 kr
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Dr. ‘Abd al-Razzāq al-Sanhūrī (1895-1971) is one of the most prominent jurists to emerge to date in the Arab world. His alarm at the growing social gap in his country, Egypt, during the first half of the twentieth century, fueled his vision of establishing moral social order by means of a new civil …
Maṣlaḥa and the Purpose of the Law
Islamic Discourse on Legal Change from the 4th/10th to 8th/14th Century
Inbunden, 2010
3096 kr
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Focusing on writings of legal theory by leading jurisprudents from al-Jaṣṣāṣ (d. 370/980) to al-Shāṭibī (d. 790/1388), this study traces the Islamic discourse on legal change. It looks at the concept of maṣlaḥa (people’s well-being) as a method of extending and adapting God’s law, showing how it …
God in the Courtroom
The Transformation of Courtroom Oath and Perjury between Islamic and Franco-Egyptian Law
Av Guy Bechor
Inbunden, 2011
3036 kr
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This volume compares the courtroom oaths of both Islamic and modern Egyptian legal systems, blending elements of legal history, comparative law, theology, philosophy and culture. Until now, academic research has paid little attention to the subject of the courtroom oath in the Islamic or Egyptian …
Islamic Law on Peasant Usufruct in Ottoman Syria
17th to early 19th Century
Inbunden, 2012
2365 kr
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Drawing on Hanafi fatawa and legal commentaries from Ottoman Syria between the 17th and early 19th centuries, this book examines the legal status of tenants and sharecroppers on arable lands, most of which were state or waqf properties. Challenging existing scholarship which argues that the status …
Islamic Legal Thought
A Compendium of Muslim Jurists
Av David Powers, Susan Spectorsky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
3923 kr
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In Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, twenty-three scholars each contribute a chapter on a distinguished Muslim jurist. The volume is organized chronologically and it includes jurists who represent the formative, classical and modern periods of Islamic legal thought. Each …
Islamic Law in Theory
Studies on Jurisprudence in Honor of Bernard Weiss
Inbunden, 2014
2820 kr
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The contributions of Bernard Weiss to the study of the principles of jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) are recognized in a series of contributions on Islamic legal theory. These thirteen chapters study a range of Islamic texts and employ contemporary legal, religious, and hermeneutical theory to study …
Ẓāhirī Madhhab (3rd/9th-10th/16th Century)
A Textualist Theory of Islamic Law
Av Amr Osman
Inbunden, 2014
2208 kr
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In this book, Amr Osman seeks to expand and re-interpret what we know about the history and doctrine of the Ẓāhirī madhhab. Based on an extensive prosopographical survey, he concludes that the founder, Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī, was closer in profile and doctrine to the Ahl al-Ra’y than to the Ahl al-Ḥadīth. …
Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista
The Debate on the Status of Muslim Communities in Christendom
Av Alan Verskin
Inbunden, 2015
2017 kr
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The Reconquista left unprecedentedly large numbers of Muslims living under Christian rule. Since Islamic religious and legal institutions had been developed by scholars who lived under Muslim rule and who assumed this condition as a given, how Muslims should proceed in the absence of such rule …
Islamic Law, Tribal Customary Law and Waqf
Studies in the Legal History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
Inbunden, 2023
2268 kr
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In this collected volume, Aharon Layish demonstrates that legal documents are an essential source for legal and social history. Since the late nineteenth century, Islamic law has undergone tremendous transformations, some of which have strongly affected the basic features of its nature.The changes …
Dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb
Territories, People, Identities
Inbunden, 2017
2655 kr
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This is the first collection of studies entirely devoted to the terminological pair dār al-islām / dar al-ḥarb, “the abode of Islam” and “the abode of war”, apparently widely known as representative of “the Islamic vision” of the world, but in fact almost unexplored. A team of specialists in …
Legal Documents as Sources for the History of Muslim Societies
Studies in Honour of Rudolph Peters
Inbunden, 2017
2288 kr
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This volume is a tribute to the work of legal and social historian and Arabist Rudolph Peters (University of Amsterdam). Presenting case studies from different periods and areas of the Muslim world, the book examines the use of legal documents for the study of the history of Muslim societies. From …
Waqf in Zaydī Yemen
Legal Theory, Codification, and Local Practice
Av Eirik Hovden
Inbunden, 2018
2196 kr
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Islamic foundations (waqf, pl. awqāf) have been an integral part of Yemeni society both for managing private wealth and as a legal frame for charity and public infrastructure. This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and …
Visions of Sharīʿa
Contemporary Discussions in Shī ͑ī Legal Theory
Av Ali-reza Bhojani, Laurens de Rooij m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1996 kr
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In Visions of Sharīʿa Bhojani, De Rooij and Bohlander present the first broad examination of ways in which legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh) within Twelver Shīʿī thought continues to be a forum for vibrant debates regarding the assumptions, epistemology and hermeneutics of Sharīʿa in contemporary Shīʿī …
Legal Pluralism in Muslim Contexts
Av Norbert Oberauer, Yvonne Prief m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1741 kr
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Approaches to legal pluralism vary widely across the spectrum of different disciplines. They comprise normative and descriptive perspectives, focus both on legal pluralist realities as well as public debates, and address legal pluralism in a range of different societies with varying political, …
Dynamics of Tradition
Islamic Theology and Law in Relation
Inbunden, 2025
1639 kr
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This book invites the reader to explore how Islamic theology and law have shaped, challenged, and inspired each other across centuries. What does it mean, for example, when a legal rule embodies theological debates on divine justice? We unpack questions like this by diving into the rich history and …
Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia
Inbunden, 2025
1441 kr
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This book provides an in-depth exploration of the Saudi judiciary in the 21st century. Drawing on interviews with leading members of the Saudi judiciary, seldom-seen legal literature and court judgments, the author addresses two main questions: First, what is the Saudi jurists’ understanding of an …
Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam
A Legal-hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shīʿī Discourse
Inbunden, 2024
1517 kr
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To enrich the existing debates on Islam and sexual diversity, in the present book, I seek the potential discursive spaces on homosexuality in modern Imāmī legal debates. I have undertaken this research on the thesis that modern Imāmī legal tradition on homosexuality is more flexible and dynamic …
Ottoman Provincial Society and the Waqf of Jerusalem, 1703-1831
Inbunden, 2026
2416 kr
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This book examines early modern Jerusalem’s waqf system through an Ottoman provincial lens, analyzing how diverse social groups engaged with these endowments in judicial contexts. Conceptualizing waqfs—central to the city’s socioeconomic fabric and urban identity—as an interconnected “waqf …
Undhang-Undhang Bantĕn
Édition critique, translittération et traduction annotée avec introduction de la compilation des lois du cadi du sultanat de Banten aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Inbunden, 2026
1905 kr
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Le travail historique et philologique sur l’Undhang-Undhang Bantĕn (UUB) constitue une contribution essentielle à l’étude de l’Islam en Asie du Sud-Est dans le cadre plus large des dynamiques juridiques dans l’Océan Indien. Il met en lumière un aspect crucial du développement de l’Islam dans …
