Routledge handbook of Islamic law /
Handbook of Islamic law.
edited by Khaled Abou El Fadl, Ahmad Atif Ahmad, and Said Fares Hassan.
- xvi, 449 pages ; 26 cm.
- Routledge handbooks .
- Routledge handbooks .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Approaches and the state of the field / What type of law is Islamic law? / Shari'a, natural law and the original state / 'God cannot be harmed' : on ḥuquq̄ Allah/ḥuquq̄ al-'ibad̄ continuum / Balancing this world and the next : obligation in Islamic law and jurisprudence / Divine command ethics in the Islamic legal tradition / Islamic law and bioethics / The Qur'an and the Hadith as sources of Islamic law / The emergence of the major schools of Islamic law/madhhabs / Qadis and muftis : judicial authority and the social practice of Islamic law / Ijma'̄, consensus / Superior argument / Maqaṣ̄id al-Shari'ah / Legal pluralism in Sunni Islamic law : the causes and functions of juristic disagreement / Interpreting Islamic law through legal canons / Ijtihad̄ and taqlid̄ : between the Islamic legal tradition and autonomous Western reason / Legal traditions of the'near East' : the pre-Islamic context / The place of custom in Islamic law : past and present / Jihad, sovereignty and jurisdiction : the issue of adobe of Islam / Fiqh al-aqalliyyat̄ and Muslim minorities in the West / Family law and succession / Islamic law and the question of gender equality / Islamic law and the state in pre-modern Sunni thought / Concept of state in Shi'i jurisprudence / Codification, legal borrowing and the localization of'Islamic law' / Modern Islamic constitutional theory / Islam, constitutionalism and democratic self-government / Terrorism, religious violence and the Shari'ah / Ahmad Atif Ahmad -- Khaled Abou El Fadl -- Ahmed Izzidien -- Wael Hallaq -- Omar Farahat -- Mariam al-Attar -- Ayman Shabana -- Amr Osman -- Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul -- Delfina Serrano Ruano -- Ahmad Atif Ahmad -- Ahmad Atif Ahmad -- Felicitas Opwis -- Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim -- Intisar A. Rabb -- Sherman A. Jackson -- Lena Salaymeh -- Ayman Shabana -- Ahmed Al-Dawoody -- Said Fares Hassan -- Irene Schneider -- Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Ovamir Anjun -- Amirhassan Boozari -- Guy Burak -- Andrew F. March -- Mohammad H. Fadel -- Ahmed Al-Dawoody.
This handbook is a detailed reference source comprising original articles covering the origins, history, theory and practice of Islamic law. The handbook starts out by dealing with the question of what type of law is Islamic law and includes a critical analysis of the pedagogical approaches to studying and analysing Islamic law as a discipline. The handbook covers a broad range of issues, including the role of ethics in Islamic jurisprudence, the mechanics and processes of interpretation, the purposes and objectives of Islamic law, constitutional law and secularism, gender, bioethics, Muslim minorities in the West, jihad and terrorism. Previous publications on this topic have approached Islamic law from a variety of disciplinary and pedagogical perspectives. One of the original features of this handbook is that it treats Islamic law as a legal discipline by taking into account the historical functions and processes of legal cultures and the patterns of legal thought. With contributions from a selection of highly regarded and leading scholars in this field, the Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law is an essential resource for students and scholars who are interested in the field of Islamic Law.