The Ashgate research companion to Islamic law / edited by Rudolph Peters and Peri Bearman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bearman, P. J. (Peri J.)

Peters, Rudolph.

Series:

Ashgate research companion.

Ashgate research companion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Islamic law

Research companion to Islamic law

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This unparalleled Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to Islamic law to all with an interest in this increasingly relevant and developing field. The volume presents classical Islamic law through a historiographical introduction to and analysis of Western scholarship, while key debates about hot-button issues in modern-day circumstances are also addressed. In twenty-one chapters, distinguished authors offer an overview of their particular specialty, reflect on past and current thinking, and point to directions for future research. The Companion is divided into four parts. The first offers an introduction to the history of Islamic law as well as a discussion of how Western scholarship and historiography have evolved over time. The second part delves into the substance of Islamic law. Legal rules for the areas of legal status, family law, socio-economic justice, penal law, constitutional authority, and the law of war are all discussed in this section. Part three examines the adaptation of Islamic law in light of colonialism and the modern nation state as well as the subsequent re-Islamization of national legal systems. The final section presents contemporary debates on the role of Islamic law in areas such as finance, the diaspora, modern governance, and medical ethics, and the volume concludes by questioning the role of Sharia law as a legal authority in the modern context. By outlining the history of Islamic law through a linear study of research, this collection is unique in its examination of past and present scholarship and the lessons we can draw from this for the future. It introduces scholars and students to the challenges posed in the past, to the magnitude of milestones that were achieved in the reinterpretation and revision of established ideas, and ultimately to a thorough conceptual understanding of Islamic law.

Contents:

The nature of the sharia / Rudolph Peters and Peri Bearman

The origins of the sharia / Knut S. Vikor

The divine sources / Herbert Berg

The schools of law? / Paul R. Powers

Deriving rules of law / Robert Gleave

The judge and the mufti / Brinkley Messick

State and sharia / Mohammad Fadel

Qanun and sharia / Bogac Ergene

Equality before the law / Gianluca P. Parolin

Gender relations / Christina Jones-Pauly

Socio-economic justice / Hiroyuki Yanagihashi

Public order / Christian R. Lange

Constitutional authority / Andrew F. March

War and peace / Sohail H. Hashmi

Sharia and the colonial state / L�eon Buskens

Sharia and the nation state / Maurits S. Berger

The re-Islamization of legal systems / Martin Lau

Sharia and finance / Abdullah Saeed

Sharia and the Muslim diaspora / Mathias Rohe

Sharia and modernity / Kristine Kalanges

Sharia and medical ethics / Birgit Krawietz

The normative relevance of sharia in the modern context / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.

Notes:

"First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on title page of print version.

ISBN:

9781317043065

1-4724-0371-1

1-315-61309-3

1-317-04305-7

1-78402-918-1

1-4094-3894-5

9781315613093

OCLC:

881887756