Law: Islamic Law

Edited by Elisa Giunchi

This book focuses on Islamic family law as interpreted and applied by judges in Europe, Australia and North America. It uses court transcriptions and observations to discuss how the most contentious marriage-related issues - consent and age of spouses, dower, polygamy, and divorce - are adjudicated…

Paperback – 2016-12-10 
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Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

By Farah Deeba Chowdhury

This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh. It explores the role of Islam in society and politics generally, and its influence on gender equality in particular. The work focuses on the situation of married women.…

Hardback – 2016-12-09 
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ICLARS Series on Law and Religion

By Onder Bakircioglu

The question of how Islamic law regulates the notions of just recourse to and just conduct in war has long been the topic of heated controversy, and is often subject to oversimplification in scholarship and journalism. This book traces the rationale for aggression　within the Islamic tradition, and…

Paperback – 2016-11-30 
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Routledge Research in the Law of Armed Conflict

By Roja Fazaeli

This book explores the contentious topic of women’s rights in Muslim-majority countries, with a specific focus on Iran and the Iranian women’s movement from 1906 to the present. The work contextualizes the authorial self through the use of personal narrative and interviews. A new critique of…

Hardback – 2016-11-21 
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Gender in Law, Culture, and Society

By Stewart Fenwick

This book draws on the work of Rawls to explore the interaction between faith, law and the right to religious freedom in post-Soeharto Indonesia, the world’s largest democracy after India and the United States.　 It argues that enforcement of Islamic principles by the state is inconsistent with…

Hardback – 2016-10-06
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ICLARS Series on Law and Religion

By Masudul Alam Choudhury

Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real world of today’s capitalist corporations and the alternatives? In this overview of God-consciousness as a moral-awareness model of preference formation, functions, structures, and programs of organization within the purview of…

Hardback – 2016-08-19
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Islamic Business and Finance Series

By Nima Mersadi Tabari

Lex Petrolea and International Investment Law: Law and Practice in the Persian Gulf offers readers a detailed analysis of jurisprudence on the settlement of upstream petroleum disputes between host states in the Persian Gulf and foreign investors. Dr Nima Mersadi Tabari considers the historical,…

Hardback – 2016-08-17
Informa Law from Routledge
Lloyd's Environment and Energy Law Library

By Salim Farrar, Ghena Krayem

The book explores the relationship between Muslims, the Common Law and Sharīʽah post-9/11. The book looks at the accommodation of Sharīʽah Law within Western Common Law legal traditions and the role of the judiciary, in particular, in drawing boundaries for secular democratic states with Muslim…

Hardback – 2016-07-26
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By Masudul Alam Choudhury

Islamic Financial Economy and Islamic Banking, is a thorough, deeply conceptual, analytical and applied work in the area of epistemological foundation of Islamic world-system. The book presents a new frontier of original contribution to the theme of generalized-system model of shari’ah. The model,…

Hardback – 2016-07-05
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Islamic Business and Finance Series

Edited by Elisa Giunchi

While there are many books on Islamic family law, the literature on its enforcement is scarce. This book focuses on how Islamic family law is interpreted and applied by judges in a range of Muslim countries – Sunni and Shi'a, as well as Arab and non-Arab. It thereby aids the understanding of…

Paperback – 2016-04-24
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Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

By Andrea Pin

Islam is a growing presence practically everywhere in Europe. In Italy, however, Islam has met a unique model of state neutrality, religious freedom and church and state collaboration. This book gives a detailed description of the legal treatment of Muslims in Italy, contrasting it with other…

Hardback – 2015-12-04
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By Aziz Al-Azmeh

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…

Paperback – 2015-05-22
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