Islamic Law (RLE Politics of Islam)
Social and Historical Contexts
1st Edition
Published on 8. May 2013
Book
Hardback
292 pages
978-0-415-83081-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book underlines the mutability of Islamic law and attempts to relate its substantive and institutional varieties and transformations to social, political, economic and other historical circumstances. The studies in the book range from discussion of the received wisdom in Islamic law to studies of legal institutions and the theoretical means employed by Islamic law for the accommodation of changing historical circumstances.
First published in 1988.
First published in 1988.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
611 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-83081-2 (9780415830812)
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Person
Aziz Al-Azmeh is Professor at the Department of History, Central European University, Vienna, Austria. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Yale University
Content
Preface. Abbreviations. 1. The Family, Inheritance, and Islam: A e-examination of the Sociology of Fara'id Law Martha Mundy 1.1. Modern Interpretations of the Islamic Laws of Inheritance. 1.2. The Sociology of Origins Re-examined. 1.3. Law and Practice of Inheritance: Comparative Questions Re-examined. 2. Qanun and Sharia in the Ottoman Context Richard Repp 3. Islamic Law as a Source for the Development of a Comparative Jurisprudence: Theory and Practice in the Life and Work of Sanhuri Enid Hill 4. Institutions of Justice in Fatamid Egypt Amin Haji 5. The Transformation of the Muslim Court System in Colonial Algeria Allan Christelow 6. Islamic Laws in the Sudan Safiya Safwat 7. Islamic Legal Theory and the Appropriation of Reality Aziz Al-Azmeh. Index of Arabic and Turkish Terms. General Index