Islamic law in past and present / / Mathias Rohe ; translated by Gwendolin Goldbloom.

Islamic Law in Past and Present , written by the lawyer and Islamicist Mathias Rohe, is the first comprehensive study for decades on Islamic law, legal theory, reform mechanisms and the application of Islamic law in Islamic countries and the Muslim diaspora. It provides information based on an abund...

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Superior document:Themes in Islamic Studies, Volume 8
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Themes in Islamic studies ; 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (676 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • About This Book
  • ‘Sharia’ and Law
  • The Origins of the Islamic State and Its Legal System
  • The Development of the Dogmatics of Islamic Law
  • Judgments and Opinions
  • Overview of the Areas Governed by Classical Islamic Law
  • Further Development and Upheaval from the Thirteenth/Nineteenth Century Onwards
  • Methods for Further Development and Examples of Practical Application
  • Core Areas of Modern Islamic Law
  • Introduction
  • India: An Example of a Territory Previously under Muslim Rule
  • Canada: An Example of a Typical Immigration Country
  • Germany (Also Taking into Account Other European Countries)
  • Between Secularisation and Re-Islamisation
  • Conclusion: The Search for New Approaches
  • The Structure of the Kitāb al-mabsūṭ fī l-furūʿ by the Hanafite Jurist al-Sarakhsī (d. 483/1090)
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index of Persons and Terms.