Aziz Al-Azmeh

Islamic Law (eBook, PDF)

Social and Historical Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134609987
• Artikelnr.: 39264324

Autorenporträt

Aziz Al-Azmeh is Professor at the Department of History, Central European University, Vienna, Austria. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Yale University

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Abbreviations. 1. The Family, Inheritance, and Islam: A
e-examination of the Sociology of Fara'id Law Martha Mundy 1.1. Modern
Interpretations of the Islamic Laws of Inheritance. 1.2. The Sociology of
Origins Re-examined. 1.3. Law and Practice of Inheritance: Comparative
Questions Re-examined. 2. Qanun and Sharia in the Ottoman Context Richard
Repp 3. Islamic Law as a Source for the Development of a Comparative
Jurisprudence: Theory and Practice in the Life and Work of Sanhuri Enid
Hill 4. Institutions of Justice in Fatamid Egypt Amin Haji 5. The
Transformation of the Muslim Court System in Colonial Algeria Allan
Christelow 6. Islamic Laws in the Sudan Safiya Safwat 7. Islamic Legal
Theory and the Appropriation of Reality Aziz Al-Azmeh. Index of Arabic and
Turkish Terms. General Index