Al-Hidayah, Volume II: The Guidance
This contemporary translation makes the Hidayah-the 800-year-old multivolume work used by Muslim jurists to issue Islamic-law rulings-accessible to the English-speaking world. The Hidayah is arguably ...
The Spirit Of Islamic Law
This study focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh is concerned with the articulation of actual rules of law, this science elaborates the...
Quest For Divinity: A Critical Examination Of The Thought Of Mahmud Muhammad Taha
The first critical work to examine fully the thought of Mahmud Muhammad Taha (1909-1985) who advanced one of the most radical intellectual projects for the reform of Islam and its reconciliation with ...
Consuming Desires: Family Crisis And The State In The Middle East
Over the course of the twentieth century, most Middle East states adopted a "shari'a"-based system for recognizing marriages. Partly in reaction to these dynamics, new types of marriage that evade the...
Off The Straight Path: Illicit Sex, Law, And Community In Ottoman Aleppo
The legal treatment of sexual behavior is a subject that receives little scholarly attention in the field of Middle East women's studies. Important questions about the relationship between sexuality a...
Women In Muslim Family Law
Expands and updates family law as it pertains to women with regard to marriage, divorce and inheritance throughout the Middle East. This second revised edition of John L. Esposito's landmark work ex...
Democratization And Islamic Law Democratization And Islamic Law Democratization And Islamic Law: The Sharia Conflict In Nigeria The Sharia Conflict In
When democracy was introduced to Nigeria in 1999, one third of its federal states declared that they would be governed by sharia, or Islamic law. In "Democratization and Islamic Law," Johannes Harnisc...
Islamic Family Law:
There have been significant devlopments in the evolution of Islamic Law with respect to the family especially in those countries where the Shari'a tradition is influential. The aim of this book is to ...
Islam And Public Law
This book groups essays which represent the most advanced scholarship on public law in the world of Islam. Whilst the studies cover a wide historical and geographical soan, ranging from early views in...
Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers
A Berber from the mountainous region of Algeria, Mohammed Arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of Islamic thought. In this book, he advocates a conception of Islam as a stream of experience e...
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