The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law

Islamic Law

The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law

Edited by Rudolph Peters · Peri Bearman
Routledge December 2019

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ISBN-13
9780367196622
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
December 2019
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book surveys secondary literature on the biggest questions that have animated the field of Islamic law since its beginnings. It offers scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of research in a particular area.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Nature of the Sharia
Part I: The Historical Islamic Law
2. The Origins of the Sharia
3. The Divine Sources
4. The Schools of Law
5. Deriving Rules of Law
6. The Judge and the Mufti
7. State and Sharia
8. Qanun and Sharia
Part II: Substantive Islamic Law
9. Equality before the Law
10. Gender Relations
11. Socio-Economic Justice
12. Public Order
13. Constitutional Authority
14. War and Peace
Part III: Islamic Law through the Prism of the Modern State
15. Sharia and the Colonial State
16. Sharia and the Nation State
17. The Re-Islamization of Legal Systems
Part IV: Present-Day Discussions about Sharia
18. Sharia and Finance
19. Sharia and the Muslim Diaspora
20. Sharia and Modernity
21. Sharia and Medical Ethics
22. Epilogue: The Normative Relevance of Sharia in the Modern Context
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