An Introduction to Islamic LawThis book presents a broad account of the present knowledge of the history and outlines the system of Islamic law. Showing that Islamic law is the key to understanding the essence of one of the great world religions, this book explores how it still influences the laws of contemporary Islamicstates, and is in itself a remarkable manifestation of legal thought. |
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Page 16
... century of Islam . 2. Towards the end of the period of the caliphs of Medina the Islamic community was rent by political schisms , and the two ' heterodox ' movements of the Khārijis and of the Shi'a established themselves beside the ...
... century of Islam . 2. Towards the end of the period of the caliphs of Medina the Islamic community was rent by political schisms , and the two ' heterodox ' movements of the Khārijis and of the Shi'a established themselves beside the ...
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... century and later , and had to be reconciled with legal theory . The same John of Damascus mentions the insistence on witnesses , and on witnesses only , as a typical custom of the Saracens , and this , too , was ... CENTURY OF ISLAM 19.
... century and later , and had to be reconciled with legal theory . The same John of Damascus mentions the insistence on witnesses , and on witnesses only , as a typical custom of the Saracens , and this , too , was ... CENTURY OF ISLAM 19.
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... Islamic law . All indications go to prove that Iraq was this centre . The ascendancy of Iraq in the develop- ment of religious law and jurisprudence in Islam continued during the whole of the second century . Influences of the doctrine ...
... Islamic law . All indications go to prove that Iraq was this centre . The ascendancy of Iraq in the develop- ment of religious law and jurisprudence in Islam continued during the whole of the second century . Influences of the doctrine ...
Contents
HISTORICAL SECTION | 6 |
The First Century of Islam | 15 |
The Umayyad Administration and the First | 23 |
Copyright | |
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Abbasids administration AḤMAD āķila Algiers ancient schools applied Arabic aşaba authority become blood-money BOUSQUET BRUNSCHVIG Cairo caliph claim Code concept concerning consensus contract countervalue customary law Death debt developed dhimmi doctrine droit musulman Études evidence existence favour GOLDZIHER hadd ḥadd punishment Hanafi Hanbali hijra hiyal homicide husband Ibn Taymiyya ijtihad imām inheritance instance Iraqian Islamic law istiḥsān jurisprudence kadhf ķāḍī kaffāra khiyār Kitāb Koran Kufa law of family legal subject-matter legal thought Leiden liability mahr Maliki manumission marriage Medina MUHAMMAD Muslim niyya oath object obligation opinion Origins Ottoman owner ownership Paris parties penal law person practice principle prohibition Prophet recognized regard religious law repudiation restricted retaliation ribā right of rescission rules sacred Law SCHACHT scholars schools of law Shafi'i shari'a Shiite Shorter E.I. slave specialists stipulated sunna systematic taʼzīr theory Traditionists traditions transactions transl Umayyad unlawful intercourse usurper valid wakf wife witnesses