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The Law Applied
Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a
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About this book
A sea change has taken place in Islamic legal studies. This book both reflects and contributes to that change. Traditionally, scholars in this field have tended to focus on law as a body of rules and doctrines, as 'fiqh'. This volume is more interested in how the law has been applied to concrete situations. It looks at judicial decision-making, legal responses (fatwas), customary practices, the actions of public inspectors, cultural contexts, and theological discourses as well as modern legal reform and constitutional development. Reflecting the interests of a new academic generation, "The Law Applied" offers an ambitious and textured account of how Islamic law works in practice in the social life of the contemporary world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface, by William P. Alford
- Foreword
- 1. Reform, Renewal, Religion and Social Discipline - Charles Donahue, Jr.
- 2. The Kindred Concepts of Seisin and Hawz in English and Islamic Law - John Makdisi
- 3. "Legal Realism" in Tehran - Louise Halper
- 4. Price Setting and Hoarding in Mamluk Egypt - Kristen Stilt
- 5. Sharecropping in the Dakhla Oasis - Rudolph Peters
- 6. Joint Marital Property in Indonesian Customary, Islamic and National Law - Mark E. Cammack and R. Michael Feener
- 7. A Study of Waki's (d.306-917) Akhbar Al-Qudat - Muhammad Khalid Masud
- 8. The Heritage of Ottoman Rule in the Israeli Legal System - Aharon Layish
- 9. Class and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Egypt - Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
- 10. Shari'a Ethnography - Brinkley Messick
- 11. Constitutions for the Twenty-First Century - Chibli Mallat
- 12. Legal Reconstruction and Islamic Law in Afghanistan - Martin Lau
- 13. The Qadi and the Mufti in Akhbari Shi'i Jurisprudence - Robert Gleave
- 14. A Perfect Law in an Imperfect Society - Baber Johansen
- 15. Talking in Code - Tim Lindsey and Jeremy Kingsley
- 16. Shari'a in the Secular State - Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
- 17. The Emergence of a New Qur'anic Hermeneutic - Bernard K. Freamon
- 18. Law and Historiography - Nimrod Hurvitz
- 19. Text and Application - Bernard G. Weiss
- 20. Two Theologies of the Obligation to Obey God's Commands - Aron Zysow
- List of Contributors
- Index