Islamic Law in Theory

Studies on Jurisprudence in Honor of Bernard Weiss

This book studies a range of Islamic texts, and employs contemporary legal, religious, and hermeneutical theory to study the methodology of Islamic law.

... such as marriage or 3) facilitated by political life (tamaddun), and these are the rules of criminal sanction (al-ʿuqūbāt).54 in this vision, surely shaped by Greek political theory and its muslim real- izations, acts are directed ...