Islamic law in past and present

✍ Scribed by Rohe, Mathias;Goldbloom, Gwendolin(Translation)

• Publisher: Koninklijke Brill
• Year: 2014;2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 676
• Series: Themes in Islamic studies Volume 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 abundance of Oriental and Western sources regarding family and inheritance law, contract and economic law, penal law, constitutional, administrative and international law. The present situation and law in action are highlighted particularly. This includes examples collected during field studies on the application of Islamic law in India, Canada and Germany."

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Notes on Transcription/Transliteration and Pronunciation......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction. Islam, ‘Sharia’ and Law......Page 19
Chapter 1. About This Book......Page 21
Chapter 2. ‘Sharia’ and Law......Page 28
Part 1. The History of Islamic Law......Page 41
1. The Beginnings......Page 43
2. The Schism between Sunnis and Shiʿites......Page 48
3. The Emergence of Schools of Law and Institutions of the Law......Page 51
4. Courts and Jurists within the State Structure......Page 61
5. Presenting the Evidence in Court......Page 67
6. Further Administrative Institutions......Page 70
1. Introduction......Page 72
2. The Quran......Page 79
3. The Sunna of the Prophet......Page 84
4. The Consensus of the Legal Scholars (ijmāʿ)......Page 92
5. Conclusion by Analogy and Other Methods of Deduction (qiyās)......Page 97
6. ‘Considering (Something) to be Better’ (istiḥsān)......Page 100
7. Considering the Universal Good (istiṣlāḥ, al-maṣāliḥ al-mursala)......Page 102
8. The Opinions of (Individual) Prophet’s Companions (madhhab al-ṣaḥābī)......Page 104
9. Customary Law (ʿurf) and Custom (ʿāda)......Page 105
10. ‘Blocking the Means’ (sadd al-dharāʾīʿ)......Page 109
11. ‘Continuance’ (istiṣḥāb) and ‘Norms of Those before Us’ (sharʿ man qablanā)......Page 110
Chapter 3. Judgments and Opinions......Page 112
1. Introduction: Theory and Practice......Page 115
2. Personal Status, Marriage and Family Law......Page 118
3. Inheritance Law......Page 145
4. Contract Law and Commercial Law......Page 150
5. Company Law......Page 167
6. Property Law......Page 169
7. Criminal Law and Law of Tort......Page 173
8. Constitutional Law and Administrative Law......Page 199
9. Law Relating to Aliens and International Law......Page 207
10. Fiscal Law and Charitable Foundations (awqāf)......Page 227
Part 2. Modern Islamic Law......Page 231
1. Introduction......Page 233
2. Surrounding Conditions, Motives of and Paths Taken by Reforms......Page 237
1. Formalising the Law and Application of the Law under Government Parameters......Page 251
3. Silence of the Legislative Authority within the Codification and Legal Practitioner’s Silence......Page 257
4. Reform on the Basis of New or Rediscovered Methods of Finding and Interpreting Sources......Page 258
5. Further Developments ‘from the Bottom up’ and Opposing Trends......Page 275
6. ‘Revolutionary’ Changes......Page 276
1. Personal Status Law, Family Law and Inheritance Law......Page 281
2. Contract Law and Commercial Law......Page 314
3. Constitutional Law and Administrative Law......Page 324
4. Penal Law......Page 351
Part 3. Paths Taken by Islamic Law in the Diaspora......Page 365
Chapter 1. Introduction......Page 367
1. Introduction......Page 369
2. The Legal Framework......Page 380
3. Conclusion......Page 416
1. Introduction......Page 431
2. The Legal Framework for Applying the Norms of Islamic Law in Canada......Page 433
1. Introduction......Page 471
2. Applying Islamic Religious Norms in Germany and Europe......Page 473
3. Applying the Norms of Islamic Law......Page 486
4. Muslims’ Basic Attitude towards the Legal System in Force......Page 528
Part 4. Islamic Law and Its Prospects in a Globalised World......Page 541
Chapter 1. Between Secularisation and Re-Islamisation......Page 543
Chapter 2. Conclusion: The Search for New Approaches......Page 549
Appendix. The Structure of the Kitāb al-mabsūṭ fī l-furūʿ by the Hanafite Jurist al-Sarakhsī (d. 483/1090)......Page 553
Bibliography......Page 575
Glossary......Page 634
Index of Persons and Terms......Page 650