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Marriage Advice for a Pope
BRILL 2008; US$ 144.00Reconstructs the scholastic arguments about marital indissolubility and papal power that lay behind John XXII's 1322 constitution Antique Concertationi. This book illustrates the relationship between canon law and theology, and the tensions between papal authority and academic expertise, that animated a controversial pontificate. more...
Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 79.00In 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...
The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 40.00Islam’s tense relationship with modernity is one of the most crucial issues of our time. Within Islamic legal systems, with their traditional preference for eyewitness testimony, this struggle has played a significant role in attitudes toward expert witnesses. Utilizing a uniquely comparative approach, Ron Shaham here examines the evolution... more...
An Introduction to Islamic Law
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 28.00An introduction to the fundamentals of Islamic law and its history. more...
Muslim Marriage in Western Courts
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 104.95This book describes and analyzes the notion of Mahr, the Muslim custom whereby the groom has to give a gift to the bride in consideration of the marriage. It explores how Western courts, specifically in Canada, the United States, France, and Germany, have approached and interpreted Mahr. Returning to the overarching concept of liberalism, the book... more...
Covenantal Rights
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 24.95Covenantal Rights is a groundbreaking work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought. David Novak pursues these aims by presenting a theory of rights... more...
Wahh?b? Islam Facing the Challenges of Modernity
BRILL 2010; US$ 136.00This book examines D?r al-Ift?, the official Saudi religious establishment for issuing fatwas, between 1971 and 1999. Specifically, it explores the challenges that this scholarly body encountered when applying Wahh?b? interpretations of the Shari'a to late twentieth-century modernity. more...
Ma?la?a and the Purpose of the Law
BRILL 2010; US$ 197.00Analyzing pre-modern writings on Islamic legal theory, this book comprehensively presents the transformation of the concept of maá'£la?a as a vehicle of legal change from a minor legal principle to being understood as the all-encompassing purpose of God more...
Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings. On a deeper level, however, it deals with the perennial problem of change and continuity in the Islamic legal tradition (or any tradition for that matter). It is argued that custom ( urf and adah ) was one... more...
Women and Jewish Law
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special concern to women. Combining a historical overview... more...









