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The birth of a legal institutionby P.C. Hennigan
BRILL 2004; US$ 149.00This work presents an analysis of the earliest legal treatises on the Islamic trust, or waqf - the Ah kam al-Waaf" of Hilal al-Ray and the Ah kam al-Awqaf of al-Khassaf. This work undertakes a textual analysis of the treatises. more...
The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Lawby Wael B. Hallaq
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 26.00Wael Hallaq treats the rise of Islamic law from 622 to 950 AD when the law and legal system reached maturity. This is the first book that offers such a wide coverage of Islamic legal history, with the intention of informing students and non-specialists in a readable and insightful narrative. more...
Disability in Islamic Lawby Vardit Rispler-Chaim
Springer 2007; US$ 169.00Analyzes attitudes to people with various disabilities based on Muslim jurists' works (fiqh) in the Middle Ages and the modern era. This book focuses on people with disabilities and depicts the place and status that Islamic law has assigned to them, as well as how the law envisions their participation in religious, social, and communal life. more...
Muslim Women in Law and Societyby Ronak Husni; Daniel L. Newman
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 44.95An extremely timely translation of a seminal text on the role of women in Muslim society by the early twentieth century thinker al Tahir al-Haddad. Considered as one of the first feminist works in Arab literature, this book will be of considerable interest to scholars of an early "feminist" tract coming from a Muslim in Arab society. more...
Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Lawby Judith E. Tucker
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 28.00An exploration of Islamic law from the perspective of women and gender. more...
Women and Muslim Family Laws in Arab Statesby Lynn Welchman
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 39.95Muslim family law and its principles 15 regarding marriage, divorce, personal maintenance, paternity, and child custody is one of the most widely applied family law systems in existence today. A number of states have recently codified Muslim family law fo more...
Land, Law and Islamby Siraj Sait; Hilary Lim
Zed Books 2006; US$ 39.95This pioneering work addresses Islamic property and land rights by drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary debates. The authors consider the possibilities for inclusive and pro-poor approaches to land rights within Islamic legal and human rights systems. more...
Law, Custom, and Statute in the Muslim Worldby Ron Shaham
BRILL 2006; US$ 153.00Deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: shari'a custom, and statute. This book includes chapters that focus on one of these components, and that discuss the interplay between two or even all three of them. It offers a wide geographical coverage, from the Balkans to Yemen, and from Iraq to the Maghrib. more...
Women, Islam and International Lawby Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko
BRILL 2008; US$ 160.00Addresses Islam and women's human rights from a fresh perspective. This work attempts to define some basis for constructive dialogue and interaction in the context of international law and, in the context of participation of many Muslim States in the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. more...
Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Eraby Norman Calder; Colin Imber
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 76.00In this book, Colin Imber has put together and edited four essays in the field of Islamic law by Norman Calder that have never been previously published. more...









