Origin and development of Islamic law
By: edited by Majid Khadduri and Herbert J. Liebesny ; with a foreword by Justice Robert H. Jackson.
Contributors: Khadduri, Majid, 1908-; Liebesny, Herbert J., 1911-
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Clark, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781584778646
Subjects: Islamic law; Law -- Middle East
Notes: Originally published: Washington : Middle East Institute, 1955. (Law in the Middle East ; v. 1)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Constitutional organization / H.A.R. Gibb; title: Pre-Islamic background and early development of jurisprudence / Joseph Schacht; title: The schools of law and later developments of jurisprudence / Joseph Schacht; title: Nature and sources of the Sharia / S.G. Vesey-Fitzgerald; title: Shii legal theories / A. A .A. Fysee; title: Family law / Munahmmad Abu Zahra; title: Transactions in the Sharia / Subhi Mahmasani; title: The law of waqf / Henry Cattan; title: Uqubat : penal law / Riyad Maydani; title: Judicial organization / Emile Tyan; title: Development of the Sharia under the Ottoman Empire / Ebulula Mardin; title: The Majalla / S. S. Onar; title: The development of western judicial privileges / Herbert J. Liebesny; title: Conflict of law / Choucri Cardahi; title: International law / Majid Khadduri.