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State, Society, and Law in Islam

Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective

This book explores the legal structure of the Ottoman Empire between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries and examines its association with the Empire's sociopolitical structure. The author's main focus is on the relationship between formal Islamic law and the law as it was actually administered in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Istanbul and its environs. Using court records, other primary archival documents, and little-used Islamic literature, Gerber establishes for the first time that large bodies of the law were indeed practiced and enforced as law. This refutes the ethnocentric Western view, propagated by Max Weber, that Islamic law was dispensed arbitrarily because of a widening gap between ossified Muslim law and a changing Muslim society. Gerber furthermore integrates his empirical research into a wider theoretical framework adapted from legal and historical-legal anthropology and uses this material as the basis for comparisons between the Ottoman Empire's legal system and other legal systems, most notably that of Morocco. This book shows that although Islamic law as practiced did have to contend with an inviolable sacred core, historical development nevertheless took place that can shed new light on the civilization of Islam.

Islam and International Law

Engaging Self-Centrism from a Plurality of Perspectives

Islam and International Law explores the multi-faceted relationship of Islam and international law. Current debates on Sharia, Islam and the “West” often suffer from prejudice and platitudes. The book seeks to engage such self-centrism by providing a plurality of perspectives, both in terms of interdisciplinary research and geographic backgrounds.

EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS Muddathir 'Abd al-Raḥīm is Professor of
Political Science and Islamic Studies at the International Institute of Islamic
Thought and Civilization (ISTAC/IIUM), Malaysia. Formerly, UNESCO Senior
Expert in ...

Islamic State Practices, International Law and the Threat from Terrorism

A Critique of the 'Clash of Civilizations' in the New World Order

In this original and incisive study, the author investigates the relationship between Islamic law, States practices and International terrorism.

2 The Sharia and Siyar in the Development of the Law of Nations
INTRODUCTION OUR EARLIER EXAMINATION has highlighted the complexities
inherent in enunciating absolute principles of the Sharia and the Siyar.1
Notwithstanding ...

The Secret(s) and Islam: The Ultimate Law of Change

Rival tribes lost in ignorance and ongoing battles, who worshiped idols, changed
what was within under the teachings of Islam and united as brothers and sisters
to achieve the highest forms of moral and spiritual standards. Then they lead the
 ...

Law and Islam in the Middle East

"Islamic law is the epitome of Islamic thought, the most typical manifestation of the Islamic way of life, the core and kernel of Islam itself," asserts renowned Islamic law scholar Joseph Schacht. At a time when Islamic fundamentalism is flourishing, the relation of religion to law-related behavior needs to be scrutinized. This volume considers Middle Eastern law as practiced by Muslims in a diversity of Middle East nations. Eight chapters, contributed by experts in the field, and a cogent introduction by Dwyer deal with the practical intricacies of personal status law and assess law in the public domain.

A striking element in the cultural configurations that are grounded in Islam is the
primary place that law has within them. In Islam, law consists of a comprehensive
set of rules for human conduct as provided through Allah's command, with those
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The Logic of Law Making in Islam

Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition

This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. By analyzing rulings from the Hanafi school, the author interrogates whether sacred law operated differently from secular law, why laws changed, and how different cultural and historical settings impacted on the development of legal rulings. The result is a fascinating overview of the evolution of Islamic law and the role of its jurists.

Introduction One sometimes encounters the idea that Islamic law captures the
spirit of Muslim civilization.1 It is thus not entirely unexpected to find a scholar
extracting sentences from the Qur'an, Hadith, or legal handbooks and thence ...

Islam, Law and Identity

The essays brought together in Islam, Law and Identity are the product of a series of interdisciplinary workshops that brought together scholars from a plethora of countries. Funded by the British Academy the workshops convened over a period of two years in London, Cairo and Izmir. The workshops and the ensuing papers focus on recent debates about the nature of sacred and secular law and most engage case studies from specific countries including Egypt, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Pakistan and the UK. Islam, Law and Identity also addresses broader and over-arching concerns about relationships between religion, human rights, law and modernity. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches, the collection presents law as central to the complex ways in which different Muslim communities and institutions create and re-create their identities around inherently ambiguous symbols of faith. From their different perspectives, the essays argue that there is no essential conflict between secular law and Shari`a but various different articulations of the sacred and the secular. Islam, Law and Identity explores a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of the tensions that animate such terms as Shari`a law, modernity and secularization

I. Secularism, religious faith and state law This collection invites the reader to turn
from the current obsession with the role of Islam in the modern world, and rethink
the relationship between law, faith and power; one of the most pressing ...

Islamic Law (RLE Politics of Islam)

Social and Historical Contexts

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 of legal institutions and the theoretical means employed by Islamic law for the accommodation of changing historical circumstances. First published in 1988.

The division of primary heirs into ranked classes based upon categories of
ascendants, des— cendants, and lateral relations which succeed in turn is, as we
haw2seen, not without parallel in the legal systems of late Antiquity. It bears a
certain ...

Islam and English Law

Rights, Responsibilities and the Place of Shari'a

Should England adopt shari'a law? Does Islam threaten British ideals? Lawyers, theologians and sociologists provide here a constructive, forward-looking dialogue.

For all the sensationalism stirred by the term jihad, this is its indisputable
definition in Islamic theology and law. The meaning of jihad is both this
straightforward and simple and also this complex and indeterminate. jihad could
be in the form of ...

Women, Islam and International Law

Within the Context of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Islam and womena (TM)s human rights entertain an uneasy relationship. Much has been written on the subject. This volume addresses it from a new perspective. It attempts to define some basis for constructive dialogue and interaction in the context of international law and, more precisely, in the context of participation of many Muslim States in the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Having discovered a constructive potential in both Islam and womena (TM)s human rights, the author concentrates on the role which international law should play in promoting dialogue and constructive interaction. This is done mainly through analysis of the regime of reservations and of the practice of reservations developed in the context of Muslim Statesa (TM) participation in the CEDAW. The basic thesis defended is the following: Islam as articulated in the practice of States and womena (TM)s human rights, as reflected in international instruments, are both results of human activity. Their analysis in this study reveals more commonalities than one might expect. International law should be more attentive to their voices and more innovative in using these commonalities in order to promote constructive dialogue between them and thus help to improve the situation of women suffering from discrimination and inequalities.

955 I. APPROACHING CONCLUSIONS The analysis made above clearly
demonstrated that introduction oflaws based on Islam in relation to the status of
women should not necessarily mean safeguarding and promotion of
discriminatory ...