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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Joseph Schacht. 1 INTRODUCTORY THE sacred Law of Islam1 is an all - embracing body of religious duties , the totality ... sacred Law as the knowledge par excellence . Theology has never been able to achieve a comparable importance in ...
Joseph Schacht. 1 INTRODUCTORY THE sacred Law of Islam1 is an all - embracing body of religious duties , the totality ... sacred Law as the knowledge par excellence . Theology has never been able to achieve a comparable importance in ...
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... sacred law ' which are historically and geographi- cally nearest to it , Jewish law and Canon law , are sensibly different . Both Jewish law and Canon law are more uniform than Islamic law . The history of Jewish law , it is true ...
... sacred law ' which are historically and geographi- cally nearest to it , Jewish law and Canon law , are sensibly different . Both Jewish law and Canon law are more uniform than Islamic law . The history of Jewish law , it is true ...
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... law , which was then still in its formative period , the only law of the state . They were successful in so far as the kāḍīs were henceforth bound to the sacred Law , but they did not succeed in achieving a permanent fusion of theory ...
... law , which was then still in its formative period , the only law of the state . They were successful in so far as the kāḍīs were henceforth bound to the sacred Law , but they did not succeed in achieving a permanent fusion of theory ...
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