Title: Encyclopedia of Islamic law : a compendium of the views of the major schools /
Authors: Bakhtiar, Laleh.; Jazīrī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.; Maghnīyah, Muḥammad Jawād, 1904-1979.; Reinhart, Kevin A., 1952-
Publisher: ABC International Group ; Distributed by Kazi Publications,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Islamic law Encyclopedias.
Abstract: "The various schools of law are compared and contrasted on all issues of the Shariah including individual worship (purification, prescribed prayer, prescribed fasting, prescribed charity and prescribed pilgrimage), economic issues including inheritance, endowments, wills and bequests, legal disability and social issues of marriage and divorce."--Publisher's website.
Contents: Part 1: Individual issues. Prescribed purity ; Prescribed prayer ; Prescribed fasting ; The prescribed pilgrimage -- Part 2: Economic Issues. Prescribed poor-due and twenty-percent tax ; Endowment ; Inheritance ; Will and bequest ; Legal disability -- Part 3: Social Issues. Marriage ; Divorce -- Glossary with transliteration.