Understanding Sharia: Islamic Law in a Globalised World

by Raficq S. Abdulla, Mohamed M. Keshavjee

Overview

Sharia has been a source of misunderstanding and misconception in both the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds. Understanding Sharia: Islamic Law in a Globalised World sets out to explore the reality of sharia, contextualising its development in the early centuries of Islam and showing how it evolved in line with historical and social circumstances. The authors, Raficq S. Abdulla and Mohamed M. Keshavjee, both British-trained lawyers, argue that sharia and the positive law flowing from it, known as fiqh, have never been an exclusive legal system or a fixed set of beliefs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786724052
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	04/30/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Raficq Abdulla is a lawyer, writer, public speaker and broadcaster. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Faculty of Business and Law, Kingston University, UK; and a founder member of the Advisory Panel of the UK's Muslim Law Shariah Council.
Mohamed Keshavjee is a lawyer, scholar and author on the subject of Sharia and Islamic law.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Islamic Law in the Contemporary World.
Chapter 1: Sharia - Origin through Revelation, Historical Development and Change.
Chapter 2: Legal Practice under the Umayyads
Chapter 3: Consolidation of the Schools of Law under the Abbasids
Chapter 4: Developments after Shafi?i
Chapter 5: Further Geographical Expansion and Cultural Accommodation
Chapter 6: Call for Reform - from Tanzimat to the Arab Spring
Chapter 7: Shi?i Legal Understanding and Theory of Law
Chapter 8: The Multiple Manifestations of Sharia
Chapter 9: Neo-Ijtihad
Chapter 10: Sharia and Human Rights
Chapter 11: Criminal Justice in Islam
Chapter 12: Islam and Ethics
Chapter 13: Critique
Appendix
Schools of Law in Islam (madhahib)
Glossary
Index
Bibliography
Index