Islamic Law, (4 Volume Set)

Islamic law is a legal tradition entrenched within a religious context; it is one of the most intriguing and fascinating areas of Islamic Studies. Many practitioners of Islam believe that their lives should be governed by a divinely revealed and sanctioned form of law that affects every aspect of their daily routines. Thus, whether it be a conventional religious act such as prayer, a customary practice such as marriage, or commercial activities such as trade, all these activities are determined by their legal validity within the Islamic law.

Islamic law has developed over many centuries of juristic effort into a subtle, complex, and highly developed reality. Thus, Islamic law, like any other, has its 'sources' (al-masadir); it also has its 'guiding principles' (al-usul) that dictate the nature of its 'evidence' (al-adilla); it equally employs the use of 'legal maxims' (al-qawa’id) and utilizes a number of underlying 'objectives' (al-maqasid) to underpin the structure of its legal theory.

Volume I of this new Routledge collection brings together the best scholarship to detail the origins and sources of Islamic law. The materials in Volume II, meanwhile, examine the genesis of schools of law, their utilization of specific juristic methodologies, and their development of legal theory. Volume III focuses on the consolidation and stagnation of Islamic law in the medieval period, since although the development of the schools and a number of competing legal theories played a huge role in the codification of Islamic law, at the same time the competitive nature of such methodologies led to divisiveness because of strict adherence to a specific school. The final volume in the collection examines Islamic law today, and the challenges of living in a modern, technologically advanced world.

Supplemented with a full index, Islamic Law includes a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is certain to be valued as a vital research resource.

Volume I : Origins and Sources

Part 1 : The Primacy of Revelation
Chapter 1 : The Contribution of The Qur’an and The Prophet to The Development of Islamic Fiqh’, Journal of Islamic Studies
Chapter 2 : On The Sources of Islamic Law and Practices’, Journal of Law and Religion

Part 2 : The Quran
Chapter 3 : La place du Coran dans les usul al-fiqh d’après le "Muhalla" d’Ibn Hazm’, Studia Islamica
Chapter 4 : The Exegesis of Q : 2:106 and The Islamic Theories of Naskh : Ma Nansakh Min Aya Aw Nansaha Na’ti Bi Khairin Minha Aw Mithliha’, Bulletin of The School of Oriental and African Studies
Chapter 5 : Ahmad ibn Hanbal and The Qur’an’, Journal of Qur’anic Studies

Part 3 : Hadith and Sunna
Chapter 6 : The AuThenticity of Prophetic Hadith : A Pseudo-Problem’, Studia Islamica
Chapter 7 : Twelve Sii Hadit from Tradition to Contemporary Evaluations’, Oriente Moderno
Chapter 8 : An Innovation from The Time of The Bani Hashim : Some Reflections on The Taslim at The End of The Prayer’, Journal of Islamic Studies
Chapter 9 : Divorce, Hadith-Scholar Style : From al-Darimi to al-Tirmidhi’, Journal of Islamic Studies

Part 4 : Ijmfi
Chapter 10 : On The Authoritativeness of Sunni Consensus’, International Journal of Middle East Studies

Part 5 : Qiys
Chapter 11 : Illa and Qiyas in Early Islamic Legal Theory’, Journal of The American Oriental Society

Part 6 : Subsidiary Sources of Law
Chapter 12 : Urf and Adah with The Framework of al-Shatibi’s Legal Methodology’, UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law
Chapter 13 : A Reality Check on Istihsan as a Method of Islamic Legal Reasoning’, UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law

Part 7 : Ijtihd
Chapter 14 : Q : 21 : 78–9 : A Qur’anic Basis for Ijtihad?’, Journal of Qur’anic Studies
Chapter 15 : Éric Chaumont, ‘La problématique classique de l’Ijtihâd et la question de l’Ijtihâd du prophète : Ijtihâd, Wahy et "Isma"’, Studia Islamica

Volume II : The Genesis of Legal Theory and The Schools of Law

Part 8 : Malik B : Anas (d : 179/795) and The Muwatta
Chapter 16 : Juridical Practice and Madinan "Amal : Qada" in The Muwatta of Malik’, Journal of Islamic Studies
Chapter 17 : The Prophet and The Cat : On Dating Malik’s Muwatta and The Legal Traditions’, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
Chapter 18 : On Dating Malik’s Muwatta’, UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law

Part 9 : al-Shafii (d : 204/820)
Chapter 19 : Was al-Shafii The Master Architect of Islamic Jurisprudence?’, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Chapter 20 : Setting The Record Straight : Ibn al-Labbid’s Refutation of al-Shafi’i’’, Journal of Islamic Studies
Chapter 21 : Ibn Qutayba : The Earliest Witness to al-Shafi’i and his Legal Doctrines, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta

Part 10 : Contemporaneous Juristic Activity
Chapter 22 : Der Fiqh des Zuhri’, Der Islam
Chapter 23 : Early Islamic Jurisprudence in Egypt : Two Scholars and Their Mukhtasars’, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Chapter 24 : Between Hadith and Fiqh : The "Canonical" Imami Collections of Akhbar’, Islamic Law and Society
Chapter 25 : Traditionist Jurisprudents and The Framing of Islamic Law’, Islamic Law and Society
Chapter 26 : ‘Muhammad b : Jarir al-Tabari’s al-Bayan an Usul Al-Fiqh in Ninth-Century Baghdad, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta

Part 11 : Evolution of The Schools
Chapter 27 : How Hanafism Came to Originate in Kufa and Traditionalism in Medina’, Islamic Law and Society
Chapter 28 : Schools of Law and Historical Context : Re-examining The Formation of The Hanbali Madhhab’, Islamic Law and Society
Chapter 29 : From Regional Schools to Personal Schools of Law? A Reevaluation’, Islamic Law and Society

Volume III : Consolidation and ‘Stagnation’

Part 12 : Ijtihad and Taqlid
Chapter 30 : Was The Gate of Ijtihad Closed?’, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Chapter 31 : Doubt and Prerogative : The Emergence of an Imami Shi’i Theory of Ijtihad’, Studia Islamica
Chapter 32 : The Social Logic of Taqlid and The Rise of The Mukhtasar’, Islamic Law and Society

Part 13 : Muftis and Qadis
Chapter 33 : Usul al-fiqh : Beyond Tradition’, Journal of Islamic Studies
Chapter 34 : From Prophetic Actions to Constitutional Theory : A Novel Chapter in Medieval Muslim Jurisprudence’, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Chapter 35 : The Primacy of Domestic Politics : Ibn bint al-A’azz and The Establishment of Four Chief Judgeships in Mamluk Egypt’, Journal of The American Oriental Society
Chapter 36 : The Qadi’s Diwan (Sijill) Before The Ottomans’, Bulletin of The School of Oriental and African Studies
Chapter 37 : Qadis Communicating : Legal Change and The Law of Documentary Evidence’, Al-Qantara : Revista de Estudios Arabes
Chapter 38 : Ibn Taymiyya on Astrology Annotated Translation of Three Fatwas’, Journal of Islamic Studies
Chapter 39 : Judging with God’s Law on Earth : Judicial Powers of The Qadi al-Jama’a of Cordoba in The Fifth/Eleventh Century’, Islamic Law and Society
Chapter 40 : Hisba and The Problem of Overlapping Jurisdictions : An Introduction to, and Translation of, Hisba diplomas in Qalqashandi’s Subh al-Asha’, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review

Part 14 : Consolidation of The Schools
Chapter 41 : The Significance of The Sunni Schools of Law in Islamic Religious History’, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Chapter 42 : Tabaqat-Biography : Law and Orthodoxy in Classical Islam’, Islamic Studies
Chapter 43 : Charismatic Scripturalism : The Hanbali Maqdisis of Damascus’, Der Islam
Chapter 44 : The Emergence of Fiqh as a Distinct Discipline and The Ethnic Identity of The Fuqaha in Early and Classical Islam, Studies in Arabic and Islam : Proceedings of The 19th Congress

Volume IV : Islamic Law in The Modern World

Part 15 : Islamic Law and The State
Chapter 45 : Accommodation and Revolution in Imami Shi’i Jurisprudence : Khumayni and The Classical Tradition’, Middle Eastern Studies
Chapter 46 : Sharia and State in The Modern Muslim Middle East’, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Chapter 47 : Comparative Political Theory : An Islamic Fundamentalist Critique of Rationalism’, The Journal of Politics
Chapter 48 : Juristic Authority vs : State Power : The Legal Crisis of Modern Islam’, Journal of Law and Religion

Part 16 : The Reconstruction of Tradition
Chapter 49 : Al-Shanhuri’s Reconstruction of The Islamic Law of Contract Defects : Error and Real Intent’, Journal of Islamic Studies
Chapter 50 : Islamic and Secular Criminal Law in Nineteenth-Century Egypt : The Role and Function of The Qadi’, Islamic Law and Society
Chapter 51 : Contract Stipulations in Islamic Law : The Ottoman Majalla and Ibn Taymiyya’, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Chapter 52 : The Dawning of The Third Millennium on Shari’a : Egypt’s Law No : 1 of 2000, or Women May Divorce at Will’, Arab Law Quarterly
Chapter 53 : Appropriating The Past : Twentieth-Century Reconstruction of Pre-Modern Islamic Thought’, Islamic Law and Society
Chapter 54 : Modern Sii Discussions of Habar al-wahid : Sadr, Humayni and Hu’i’, Oriente Moderno
Chapter 55 : Jihâd and The Modern World’, The Journal of Islamic Law and Culture
Chapter 56 : The Modern Debate Over Riba in Egypt, Islamic Economics : Understanding Riba
Chapter 57 : The Shifting Moral Universes of The Islamic Tradition of Ifta : A Diachronic Study of Four Adab al-Fatwa Manuals’, Muslim World
Chapter 58 : Maqasid al-sharia : Epistemology and Hermeneutics of Muslim Theologies of Human Rights’, Die Welt des Islams

Part 17 : The Study of Islamic Law in The West
Chapter 59 : The Quest for Origins or Doctrine? Islamic Legal Studies as Colonialist Discourse’, UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law
Chapter 60 : The Hanbali School of Law in The Light of Contemporary Western Studies’, Journal of Qur’anic Studies