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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Information

Publisher

I.B. Tauris

Year

2008

ISBN

9780857714275

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Islamic Studies

Index

Social Sciences

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