Islamic Legal Revival - Reception of European Law Transformations in Islamic Legal Thought

Informationen zum Autor Leonard Wood lectured at Harvard University on Middle Eastern political and intellectual history and is a former research fellow of the Islamic Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and an M.Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University. He is a practicing attorney in the United States specializing in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung Timely and provocative, this volume presents the history of revivalist thought in Islamic law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Section I: Origins of Islamic Legal Revivalism 1: The Reception of European Law in Political and Social Context 2: Early Islamic Legal Revivalism and National Complacency 3: The Sharia Bar Association Journal and the Islamic Turn Section II: European Law and Imperialist Campaigns for Islamic Legal Reform 4: Foreign Interventions in Islamic Law 5: The Long Arms of Legal Thought from Algeria, France, and Germany 6: The Comparativist Program for Islamic Legal Reform Section III: Transformations in Education and Scholarship 7: Education and Scholarship in Franco-Eygptian and French Law before 1923 8: Education and Scholarship in Islamic Law, 1868-1923 9: The Flourishing of Advanced Studies after 1923 Section IV: New Forms of Islamic Legal Thought 10: The Origins of "General Theory" in Islamic Legal Thought Epilogue Conclusion

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• Authors: Leonard Wood, Leonard (Attorney At an International Law Fi Wood, Leonard (Attorney at an international law firm; independent scholar) Wood, Wood Leonard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2016
• EAN: 9780198786016
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878601-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Oxford Islamic Legal Studies; Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, Egypt, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Africa / North, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Islamic Law, African History, Systems of law: Islamic law, LAW / Islamic