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 27
... specialists and had to be left to the interest and zeal of the caliphs , governors , kāḍīs , or individuals concerned . The circumstances in which the religious law of Islam came into being caused it to develop , not in close connexion ...
... specialists and had to be left to the interest and zeal of the caliphs , governors , kāḍīs , or individuals concerned . The circumstances in which the religious law of Islam came into being caused it to develop , not in close connexion ...
Page 37
... specialists and ķāḍīs . It would be a gratuitous assumption to regard the discretionary decision of the specialist or magistrate as anterior to the use of rudimentary analogy and the striving after coherence . Both elements are found ...
... specialists and ķāḍīs . It would be a gratuitous assumption to regard the discretionary decision of the specialist or magistrate as anterior to the use of rudimentary analogy and the striving after coherence . Both elements are found ...
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... specialists in religious law , and these last did not hesitate to supply the need . Once the system of religious law had been ela- borated , the religious zeal of the first specialists was gradually replaced and superseded by the not ...
... specialists in religious law , and these last did not hesitate to supply the need . Once the system of religious law had been ela- borated , the religious zeal of the first specialists was gradually replaced and superseded by the not ...
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