Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary study of Islamic law and a critical analysis of its deficiencies. Written by outstanding senior and emerging scholars in their fields, it offers an innovative historiographical examination of the field of Islamic law and an ideal introduction to key personalities and concepts.

While capturing the state of contemporary Islamic legal studies by chronicling how far the field has come, the Handbook also explains why certain debates recur and indicates fundamental gaps in our knowledge. Each chapter presents bold new avenues for research and will help readers appreciate the contested nature of key concepts and topics in Islamic law. This Handbook will be a major reference work for scholars and students of Islam and Islamic law for years to come.

List of contents

• Editors' Introduction


• I. Discipline and Critique


• A. Islamic Legal Studies


• 1: Ayesha Chaudhry: Islamic Legal Studies: A Critical Historiography


• 2: Anver M. Emon: Fiqh


• 3: Saadia Yacoob: Islamic Law and Gender


• 4: Rumee Ahmed: Islamic Law and Theology


• 5: John R. Bowen: Anthropology and Islamic Law


• 6: Andrew F. March: Falsafa and Law


• Part II Legal Theory and Institutions


• A. Legal Theory


• 7: Anver M. Emon: Ijtihad


• 8: Robert Gleave: Imami Shi'i Legal Theory: From its Origins to the Early-Twentieth Century


• 9: Ayman Shabana: Custom in the Islamic Legal Tradition


• 10: Youcef Soufi: The Historiography of Sunni Usul al-Fiqh


• 11: Mairaj U. Syed: Ijma'


• B. Institutions


• 12: Mohammad Fadel: al-Qadi


• 13: Kristen Stilt and M. Safa Saraçoglu: Hisba and Muhtasib


• 14: Matthieu Tillier: The Mazalim in Historiography


• Part III Origins, Empires, and States


• A. Historical Studies


• 15: Benjamin Jokisch: Origins of and Influences on Islamic law


• 16: Mariam Sheibani, Amir Toft, and Ahmed El Shamsy: The Classical Period: Scripture, Origins, and Early Development


• 17: Marion Katz: The Age of Development and Continuity, 12th-15th Centuries CE


• 18: Matthew B. Ingalls: The Historiography of Islamic Law During the Mamluk Sultanate


• 19: Haim Gerber: Law in the Ottoman Empire


• 20: M. Reza Pirbhai: A Historiography of Islamic Law in the Mughal Empire


• 21: Rula Jurdi Abisaab: Delivering Justice: The Monarch's 'Urfi Courts and the Shari'a in Safavid Iran


• 22: Syed Adnan Hussain: Anglo-Muhammadan Law


• 23: Leonard Wood: Legislation as an Instrument of Islamic Law


• Part IV Regional Variations


• A. Muslim-Majority States


• 24: Melissa Crouch: Islamic Law and Society in Southeast Asia


• 25: Antonia Fraser Fujinaga: Islamic Law in Post-Revolutionary Iran


• 26: Ruth A. Miller: The Turkish Republic


• 27: Jeff Redding: Islamic Law in South Asia: A Testament to Diversity


• B. Muslim Minorities


• 28: Natasha Bakht: The Incorporation of Shari'a in North America: Enforcing the Mahr to Combat Women's Poverty Post-Relationship Dissolution


• 29: Mathias Rohe: Islamic Law in Western Europe


• 30: Abdullah Saeed: Shari'a in Australia


• Part V Substantive Legal Areas


• A. Case Studies


• 31: Nathan J. Brown and Mara Revkin: Islamic Law and Constitutions


• 32: Shannon Dunn: Islamic Law and Human Rights


• 33: Anver M. Emon: Islamic Law and Finance&

  About the author

  Anver M. Emon is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law (OUP 2014), co-editor of the Oxford Islamic Legal Studies series, and founding editor of the journal Middle East Law and Governance.
  
  Rumee Ahmed is Associate Professor of Islamic Law and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia.

  Summary

  A comprehensive guide to Islamic legal scholarship, this Handbook offers a direct and accessible introduction to Islamic law and the academic debates within the field. Topics include textual sources and authority, institutions, substantive legal areas, Islamic legal philosophy, and Islamic law in the Muslim World and in Muslim minority countries.

  Additional text

  This handbook is clearly set to be a major modern reference work for scholars and students of Islam and Islamic law for years to come ... The two North American Professors are to be thanked for producing over a 1,000-pages of scholarship which will help those who "regularly confront artificial limits imposed by the disciplinary formation (s) of Islamic legal studies". We are fortunate, indeed, to have this new work available to us.

  Report

  The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law provides an innovative historiographical examination of a wide range of topics in the areas of Islamic Law and Islamic Legal Studies. ... Its comprehensive nature and structure, where for the first time such diverse topics that encompass Islamic Law have been included in one volume, make it unique. ... The Handbook is most suited to postgraduate students, scholars and academics who wish for a comprehensive and authoritative guide to research in this area. Sairah Narmah-Alqasim, The Law Teacher

Product details

• Authors: Anver M. (Professor and Canada Research Chai Emon, ANVER M.; STIL EMON
• Assisted by: Rumee Ahmed (Editor), Rumee (Associate Professor of Islamic Law Ahmed (Editor), Ahmed Rumee (Editor), Anver M. Emon (Editor), Anver M. (Professor and Canada Research Chair in Religion Emon (Editor), Emon Anver M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2018
• EAN: 9780199679010
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967901-0
• No. of pages: 1002
• Series: Oxford Handbooks in Law; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks in Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Islam, LAW / International, LAW / Comparative, Islamic Law, Comparative Politics, Systems of law: Islamic law, LAW / Islamic