This volume collects papers from many disciplines examining the Muslim marriage contract. Articles cover doctrines as to marriage contracts; historical instances; comparisons with Jewish and canon law; contemporary legal and social practice; and projects of activists for women worldwide.
BUKU ini menjelaskan tentang perbankan dan keuangan Islam sebagaimana yang telah dipraktekkan pada masa modern. Sepanjang dua puluh tahun yang lalu, perkembangan pesat bentuk perdagangan yang unik ini bertepatan dengan meningkatnya kekayaan di Timur Tengah dan sebagian Asia, dan bersamaan pula dengan penolakan terhadap praktek-praktek Barat yang sekuler. Di Iran, Pakistan, dan Sudan, kini perbankan Islam telah menjadi hukum negara. Di banyak negara lain, seperti Mesir, Malaysia, dan Brunei, perbankan Islam hidup berdampingan dan bersaing dengan lembaga keuangan model Barat.
This volume offers an examination of the legal system of Saudi Arabia, not only for its own sake but also as a case study for insight into past and present Islamic legal systems.
Islamic law in ways we could not equal even were we transported magically into
the past . Saudi Arabia is the most traditionalist Islamic legal system in the world
today . Islamic law is constitutionally the law of the land , the general jurisdiction ...
Mirroring the expansion of wealth in the Middle East and Asia and a surge in Islamic self-identity, Islamic banking practices have either become the law of the land or coexist and compete with Western practices in at least six countries. A growing number of institutions and mutual funds (akin to Western ''socially responsible'' funds) have established Islamic investment and other practices to cater to this burgeoning market. Because of its prevalence, practitioners in every banking-related area must familiarize themselves with current Islamic finance practices in order to do business with Muslim clients and to engage in cross-border financing. Injunctions from the "Qur'an and the sayings of Prophet Muhammed have generated a web of interrelated norms which prohibit Islamic financiers from engaging in transactions that involve interest "(riba) and speculation "(gharar). "Islamic Law and Finance describes the dynamic set of Islamically-sanctioned ways financiers can transacat business.
But the Islamic banking and finance industry vehemently rejects such attempts,
since that industry is built, as noted above, on the idea of applying the classical law, not replacing it. THE CONTEXT FOR ISLAMIC LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IN
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These selected papers from the III International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies, held in 2000 at Harvard Law School, offer building blocks toward the entire edifice of understanding the complex development of the madhhab, a development that, even in the contemporary dissolution of madhhab lines and grouping, continues to fascinate.
From Fatwas to Furūʻ : Growth and Change in Islamic Substantive Law , ” in Islamic Law and Society , 1 : 29 – 65 . - 1994b . “ Murder in Cordoba : ijtihād , iftā '
and the Evolution of Substantive Law in Mediaeval Islam , ” in Acta Orientalia , 55
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