The law applied
Subtitle: contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a : a volume in honor of Frank E. Vogel
By: edited by Peri Bearman, Wolfhart Heinrichs, Bernard G. Weiss
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781845117368
Subjects: Islamic law
Description: "A sea change has taken place in Islamic legal studies. This book both reflects and contributes to that change. Traditionally, scholars in this field have tended to focus on law as a body of rules and doctrines, as 'fiqh'. This volume is more interested in how the law has been applied to concrete situations. It looks at judicial decision-making, legal responses (fatwas), customary practices, the actions of public inspectors, cultural contexts, and theological discourses as well as modern legal reform and constitutional development. Reflecting the interests of a new academic generation, "The Law Applied" offers an ambitious and textured account of how Islamic law works in practice in the social life of the contemporary world."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mode of access: Internet.
Table of contents: title: Reform, renewal, religion, and social discipline: reflections of a medievalist / Charles Donahue, Jr.; title: The kindred concepts of Seisin and Ḥawz in English and Islamic law / John Makdisi; title: "Legal realism" in Tehran: gender law and the transformative state / Louise Halper; title: Price setting and hoarding in Mamluk Egypt: the lessons of legal realism for Islamic legal studies / Kristen Stilt; title: Sharecropping in the Dakhla Oasis: Shariʻa and customary law in Ottoman Egypt / Rudolph Peters; title: Joint marital property in Indonesian customary, Islamic, and national law / Mark E. Cammack and R. Michael Feener; title: A study of Wakīʻ's (d. 306/917) Akhbār al-Quḍāt / Muhammad Khalid Masud; title: The heritage of Ottoman rule in the Israeli legal system: the concept of Umma and Millet / Aharon Layish; title: Class and violence in nineteenth-century Egypt / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol; title: Shari'a ethnography / Brinkley Messick; title: Constitutions for the twenty-first century: emerging patterns-the EU, Iraq, Afghanistan ... / Chibli Mallat; title: Legal reconstruction and Islamic law in Afghanistan / Martin Lau; title: The Qadi and the Mufti in Akhbari Shiʻi jurisprudence / Robert Gleave; title: A perfect law in an imperfect society: Ibn Taymiyya's concept of "Governance in the name of the sacred law" / Baber Johansen; title: Talking in code: legal Islamisation in Indonesia and the MMI Shari'a criminal code / Tim Lindsey and Jeremy Kingsley; title: Shari'a in the secular state: a paradox of separation and conflation / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʻim; title: The emergence of a new Qurʼanic hermeneutic: the role and impact of universities in west and east / Bernard K. Freamon; title: Law and historiography: legal typology of lands and the Arab conquests / Nimrod Hurvitz; title: Text and application: hermeneutical reflections on Islamic legal interpretation / Gernard G. Weiss; title: Two theories of the obligation to obey God's commands / Aron Zysow.