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The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law

Author: Anver M. Emon; Rumee Ahmed
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199679027

Published In: June 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9780199679010

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This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary study of Islamic law and a critical analysis of its deficiencies. Written by outstanding senior and emerging scholars in their fields, it offers an innovative historiographical examination of the field of Islamic law and an ideal introduction to key personalities and concepts.

While capturing the state of contemporary Islamic legal studies by chronicling how far the field has come, the Handbook also explains why certain debates recur and indicates fundamental gaps in our knowledge. Each chapter presents bold new avenues for research and will help readers appreciate the contested nature of key concepts and topics in Islamic law.

This Handbook will be a major reference work for scholars and students of Islam and Islamic law for years to come.

Editors' Introduction, Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed

Part I. Discipline and Critique

A. Islamic Legal Studies

1: Islamic Legal Studies: A Critical Historiography, Ayesha Chaudhry

2: Fiqh, Anver M. Emon

3: Islamic Law and Gender, Saadia Yacoob

4: Islamic Law and Theology, Rumee Ahmed

5: Anthropology and Islamic Law, John R. Bowen

6: Falsafa and Law, Andrew F. March

Part II. Legal Theory and Institutions

A. Legal Theory

7: Ijtihad, Anver M. Emon

8: Imami Shi'i Legal Theory: From its Origins to the Early-Twentieth Century, Robert Gleave

9: Custom in the Islamic Legal Tradition, Ayman Shabana

10: The Historiography of Sunni Usul al-Fiqh, Youcef Soufi

11: Ijma', Mairaj U. Syed

B. Institutions

12: al-Qadi, Mohammad Fadel

13: Hisba and Muhtasib, Kristen Stilt and M. Safa Saraçoglu

14: The Mazalim in Historiography, Matthieu Tillier

Part III. Origins, Empires, and States

A. Historical Studies

15: Origins of and Influences on Islamic law, Benjamin Jokisch

16: The Classical Period: Scripture, Origins, and Early Development, Mariam Sheibani, Amir Toft, and Ahmed El Shamsy

17: The Age of Development and Continuity, 12th-15th Centuries CE, Marion Katz

18: The Historiography of Islamic Law During the Mamluk Sultanate, Matthew B. Ingalls

19: Law in the Ottoman Empire, Haim Gerber

20: A Historiography of Islamic Law in the Mughal Empire, M. Reza Pirbhai

21: Delivering Justice: The Monarch's 'Urfi Courts and the Shari'a in Safavid Iran, Rula Jurdi Abisaab

22: Anglo-Muhammadan Law, Syed Adnan Hussain

23: Legislation as an Instrument of Islamic Law, Leonard Wood

Part IV. Regional Variations

A. Muslim-Majority States

24: Islamic Law and Society in Southeast Asia, Melissa Crouch

25: Islamic Law in Post-Revolutionary Iran, Antonia Fraser Fujinaga

26: The Turkish Republic, Ruth A. Miller

27: Islamic Law in South Asia: A Testament to Diversity, Jeff Redding

B. Muslim Minorities

28: The Incorporation of Shari'a in North America: Enforcing the Mahr to Combat Women's Poverty Post-Relationship Dissolution, Natasha Bakht

29: Islamic Law in Western Europe, Mathias Rohe

30: Shari'a in Australia, Abdullah Saeed

Part V. Substantive Legal Areas

A. Case Studies

31: Islamic Law and Constitutions, Nathan J. Brown and Mara Revkin

32: Islamic Law and Human Rights, Shannon Dunn

33: Islamic Law and Finance, Anver M. Emon

34: Animals, Kristen Stilt

35: A Historiography of Islamic Family Law, Lynn Welchman

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