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  • Klassieke sharia en vernieuwingby Scientific Council for Government Policy; Maurits Berger

    Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 27.00

    Klassieke sharia en vernieuwing biedt een beknopte introductie op de 'sharia' of islamitische wetgeving. De twee belangrijkste delen van het boek behandelen de klassieke sharia en de vernieuwingen die in de tussentijd hebben plaatsgevonden. Na een inleiding op de aard van de sharia, de belangrijkste spelers en hun methodologie, gaat Berger in op de invloed van de sharia op de vier belangrijkste onderdelen, te weten het staatsrecht, het familierecht, het strafrecht en het economisch recht. De auteur laat zien hoe de sharia zich als gevolg van staatsvorming en modernisering heeft ontwikkeld van de algemene wet in landen in de moslimwereld tot een meer beperkte maar nog steeds belangrijke positie. Deze zeer informatieve studie besluit... more...

  • An Introduction to Islamic Lawby Wael B. Hallaq

    Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 28.00

    An introduction to the fundamentals of Islamic law and its history. more...

  • Partnership and Profit in Medieval Islamby Abraham L. Udovitch

    Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 36.50

    From the point of view of economic history, the ideal way to study any institution of commercial law would be to compare the information contained in legal codes and treatises with the material relating to its application in economic life as manifested by actual contracts, letters, and business records found in archives and other repositories. In the case of the early centuries of the Islamic period, available sources unfortunately preclude such a procedure. Theoretical legal texts exist in abundance, but any corresponding documentary material is for all practical purposes non-extant. In order to determine if the framework in which the trade and commerce of the early Islamic period was carried on--a trade known to have been active and important--we... more...

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