The Oxford Handbook Of Islamic Law

By (author) Emon Anver M.
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A comprehensive guide to Islamic legal scholarship, this Handbook offers a direct and accessible introduction to Islamic law and the academic debates within the field. Topics include textual sources and authority, institutions, substantive legal areas, Islamic legal philosophy, and Islamic law in the Muslim World and in Muslim minority countries.
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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.
Table of contents:
Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed: Editors'' Introduction Part I Discipline and Critique A. Islamic Legal Studies 1: Ayesha Chaudhry: Islamic Legal Studies: A Critical Historiography 2: Anver M. Emon: Fiqh 3: Saadia Yacoob: Islamic Law and Gender 4: Rumee Ahmed: Islamic Law and Theology 5: John R. Bowen: Anthropology and Islamic Law 6: Andrew F. March: Falsafa and Law Part II Legal Theory and Institutions A. Legal Theory 7: Anver M. Emon: Ijtihad 8: Robert Gleave: Imami Shi''i Legal Theory: From its Origins to the Early-Twentieth Century 9: Ayman Shabana: Custom in the Islamic Legal Tradition 10: Youcef Soufi: The Historiography of Sunni Usul al-Fiqh 11: Mairaj U. Syed: Ijma'' B. Institutions 12: Mohammad Fadel: al-Qadi 13: Kristen Stilt and M. Safa Saraçoglu: Hisba and Muhtasib 14: Matthieu Tillier: The Mazalim in Historiography Part III Origins, Empires, and States A. Historical Studies 15: Benjamin Jokisch: Origins of and Influences on Islamic law 16: Mariam Sheibani, Amir Toft, and Ahmed El Shamsy: The Classical Period: Scripture, Origins, and Early Development 17: Marion Katz: The Age of Development and Continuity, 12th-15th Centuries CE 18: Matthew B. Ingalls: The Historiography of Islamic Law During the Mamluk Sultanate 19: Haim Gerber: Law in the Ottoman Empire 20: M. Reza Pirbhai: A Historiography of Islamic Law in the Mughal Empire 21: Rula Jurdi Abisaab: Delivering Justice: The Monarch''s ''Urfi Courts and the Shari''a in Safavid Iran 22: Syed Adnan Hussain: Anglo-Muhammadan Law 23: Leonard Wood: Legislation as an Instrument of Islamic Law Part IV Regional Variations A. Muslim-Majority States 24: Melissa Crouch: Islamic Law and Society in Southeast Asia 25: Antonia Fraser Fujinaga: Islamic Law in Post-Revolutionary Iran 26: Ruth A. Miller: The Turkish Republic 27: Jeff Redding: Islamic Law in South Asia: A Testament to Diversity B. Muslim Minorities 28: Natasha Bakht: The Incorporation of Shari''a in North America: Enforcing the Mahr to Combat Women''s Poverty Post-Relationship Dissolution 29: Mathias Rohe: Islamic Law in Western Europe 30: Abdullah Saeed: Shari''a in Australia Part V Substantive Legal Areas A. Case Studies 31: Nathan J. Brown and Mara Revkin: Islamic Law and Constitutions 32: Shannon Dunn: Islamic Law and Human Rights 33: Anver M. Emon: Islamic Law and Finance 34: Kristen Stilt: Animals 35: Lynn Welchman: A Historiography of Islamic Family Law Index
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This volume gives a comprehensive survey of the state of knowledge today...The volume demonstrates how far we have now moved...towards a study of Islamic law as a phenomenon that varies dramatically with historical and social