Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law
A Study of Six Works of Medieval Islamic Jurisprudence
Biographical note
Ahmad Atif Ahmad, Ph.D. (2005) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Harvard University, is Assistant Professor in Islamics at Macalester College, MN. His first book (in Arabic) addressed the issue of reviewing court decisions in Islamic law (Cairo, 1997).
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This is the first broad study of the treatment of intent in Islamic law, examining ritual, commercial, family, and penal law and providing new insights into Muslim understandings of law, religious ritual, action, agency, and language.
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This volume comprising annotated translations of court decisions focuses on the interaction between the sharīʿa and tribal law as reflected in 72 protocols pertaining to personal status, homicide and bodily injury, etc. issued by Libyan sharīʿa courts approximately during the period 1930-1970.
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This volume focuses on the portions of Muslim purity jurisprudence that deal with matters libidinal -- mulāmasa (the ritual result of contact with the opposite sex) and janāba (ceremonial defilement following cohabitation) -- and examines their implications for the Islamic outlook on sexuality.
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Dispensing Justice is designed to serve as a sourcebook of Islamic judicial practice and qadi judgments from the rise of Islam to modern times, drawing upon court records and qadi court records, in addition to literary sources. The volume fills a large gap in Islamic legal history.
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This study sheds new light on the legal position of Westerners and their Ottoman protégés (berātlıs) by investigating the dynamic relations between Islamic judges and foreign consuls in the Ottoman Empire, providing detailed case studies and critical analyses of theory, perception, and practice.
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This study, relied mainly on the legal texts and hadith collections dating from the eighth and ninth centuries, provides an illuminating account of how rules regulating various transactions were formed, developped and synthesized in the formative period of Islamic law.
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This volume explores the recent decision by Egypt to constitutionalize sharīʿa and analyzes the Egyptian judiciary’s attempts to argue that sharī‘a is consistent with human rights. It will interest anyone studying Islamic law, constitutional thought in the Middle East, or Islam and human rights.
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This book presents the first sustained analysis of the earliest legal treatises on the Islamic trust, or waqf, and offers a new perspective on Islamic legal culture, the profess of legal legitimation, and the development of law within Ḥanafī hursiprudence.
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This book studies the functions and responsibilities of Islamic courts and explores the processes of adjudication and dispute resolution in the context of the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Ottoman Anatolia.
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This study analyzes the reinstatement of Islamic law in Sudan under Numayrī in the light of its historical context, sources of inspiration, methodology and repercussions, with special reference to the judge as an instrument for implementing the governmental Islamist policy.
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