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  • The Hanbali School of Law and Ibn Taymiyyahby Abdul Hakim I. Al-Matroudi

    RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 150.00

    In this book, the life of the 14th century jurist Ibn Taymiyyah and his position within Hanbali tradition is analysed. It is an original piece of research, taking into consideration the issues involved in madhhab affilation and Hanbali fiqh. more...

  • Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Lawby Wael B. Hallaq

    Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 49.00

    In his latest book, Wael Hallaq examines the relationship between authority, continuity and change in Islamic law and concludes that the mechanisms of change are embedded in its very structure despite its inherent conservatism. Scholars will welcome the intellectual rigor and innovation of this pathbreaking analysis. more...

  • Studies in Islamic legal theoryby B. Weiss

    BRILL 2002; US$ 233.00

    This volume is a collection of studies devoted entirely to topics and issues in the field of Islamic legal theory and authored by 14 scholars known for their work in this field. The studies deal with such topics as early notions of charismatic authority. more...

  • The birth of a legal institutionby P.C. Hennigan

    BRILL 2004; US$ 149.00

    This 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$ 26.00

    Wael 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...

  • Muslim Women in Law and Societyby Ronak Husni; Daniel L. Newman

    Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 140.00

    An 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...

  • Crime and Punishment in Islamic Lawby Rudolph Peters

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 28.00

    This is an account of the theory and practice of Islamic criminal law. more...

  • Disability in Islamic Lawby Vardit Rispler-Chaim

    Springer 2007; US$ 169.00

    Analyzes 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...

  • Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imaginationby Christian Lange

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 79.00

    A study of the phenomenon of punishment in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. more...

  • Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Lawby Judith E. Tucker

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 28.00

    An exploration of Islamic law from the perspective of women and gender. more...