Studies in Islamic Law and Society

Editorial board: Ruud Peters and A. Kevin Reinhart

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1384-1130
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€99.00$136.00
Series:
SILS
Volume:
35
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004228351
Islamic Law on Peasant Usufruct in Ottoman Syria
Sabrina Joseph
Drawing on Hanafi legal texts from Ottoman Syria between the 17th and early 19th centuries, this book examines how jurists balanced the rights and obligations of tenants and landlords on state and waqf lands, contributing in the process to the dynamism of the law and the adaptability and ...
€143.00$196.00
Series:
SILS
Volume:
34
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004209749
God in the Courtroom
Guy Bechor
This volume compares the courtroom oaths of both Islamic and modern Egyptian legal systems, blending elements of legal history, comparative law, theology, philosophy and culture.
€190.00$246.00
Series:
SILS
Volume:
33
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004201323
Legal Documents from the Judean Desert
Aharon Layish
English translations of modern legal documents from the Judean Desert cast light on the Islamization of the tribal customary law in the tribal judge’s precinct. This book is intended for students of Islamic law, of customary law and comparative law, legal, social and economic historians, and ...
€101.00$131.00
Series:
SILS
Volume:
32
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004184695
Wahhābī Islam Facing the Challenges of Modernity
Muhammad Al Atawneh
This book examines Dār al-Iftā, the official Saudi religious establishment for issuing fatwas, between 1971 and 1999. Specifically, it explores the challenges that this scholarly body encountered when applying Wahhābī interpretations of the Shari'a to late twentieth-century modernity.
€146.00$189.00
Series:
SILS
Volume:
31
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004184169
Maṣlaḥa and the Purpose of the Law
Felicitas Opwis
Analyzing pre-modern writings on Islamic legal theory, this book comprehensively presents the transformation of the concept of maṣlaḥa as a vehicle of legal change from a minor legal principle to being understood as the all-encompassing purpose of God’s law.
€139.00$180.00
Series:
SILS
Volume:
30
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004163607
Early Islamic Legal Theory
Joseph E. Lowry
This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of Shāfiʿī’s Risāla and shows how Shāfiʿī sought to formulate an all-embracing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qurʾān and the Sunna.
€122.00$158.00
Series:
SILS
Volume:
29
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004158788
The Sanhuri Code, and the Emergence of Modern Arab Civil Law (1932 to 1949)
Guy Bechor
The book examines the drafting of the Egyptian Civil Code of 1949, exposing its unknown sociological strata, under the leadership of Dr. ‘Abd al-Razzāq al-Sanhūrī, one of the most prominent jurist to emerge to date in the Arab world.
€117.00$152.00
Series:
SILS
Volume:
28
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004154537
Law, Custom, and Statute in the Muslim World
Edited by Ron Shaham
This collective volume deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: sharīʿa, custom, and statute. Some chapters focus on one of these components, other discuss the interplay between two or even all three of them.
€111.00$144.00
Series:
SILS
Volume:
27
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004150317
Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law
Ahmad Atif Ahmad
This volume addresses the structural interrelations of Islamic theoretical and practical legal reasoning, based on an analysis of six works of Islamic jurisprudence by authors who lived in Uzbekistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Algeria between 970 and 1600 CE.
€127.00$165.00
Series:
SILS
Volume:
26
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004147454
Authority, Conflict, and the Transmission of Diversity in Medieval Islamic Law
R. Kevin Jaques
This publication examines how a medieval Syrian Shāfiʿī jurist, Ibn Qāḍī Shuhbah (d. 851/1448), depicted the formation, decline, and the sources for the revival of Islamic law based on his Ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ al-shāfiʿīyah (The Generations of the Shāfiʿī Jurists).
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