Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a »

Peri Bearman is Associate Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program (ILSP) at Harvard Law School. Bernard Weiss is Professor of Languages & Literature at the University of Utah. Wolfhart Heinrichs is James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

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 interested in how the law has been applied to concrete situations. It looks at judicial decision-making, legal response (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.

Preface   William P. Alford     vii
Foreword     ix
Reform, Renewal, Religion, and Social Discipline: Reflections of a Medievalist   Charles Donahue, Jr.     1
The Kindred Concepts of Seisin and Hawz in English and Islamic Law   John Makdisi     22
"Legal Realism" in Tehran: Gender Law and the Transformative State   Louise Halper     42
Price Setting and Hoarding in Mamluk Egypt: The Lessons of Legal Realism for Islamic Legal Studies   Kristen Stilt     57
Sharecropping in the Dakhla Oasis: Sharia and Customary Law in Ottoman Egypt   Rudolph Peters     79
Joint Marital Property in Indonesian Customary, Islamic, and National Law   Mark E. Cammack   R. Michael Feener     92
A Study of Waki's (d. 306/917) Akhbar al-Qudat   Muhammad Khalid Masud     116
The Heritage of Ottoman Rule in the Israeli Legal System: The Concept of Umma and Millet   Aharon Layish     128
Class and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Egypt   Amira El-Azhary Sonbol     150
Sharia Ethnography   Brinkley Messick     173
Constitutions for the Twenty-First Century: Emerging Patterns-The EU, Iraq, Afghanistan...   Chibli Mallat     194
Legal Reconstruction and Islamic Law inAfghanistan   Martin Lau     216
The Qadi and the Mufti in Akhbari Shii Jurisprudence   Robert Gleave     235
A Perfect Law in an Imperfect Society: Ibn Taymiyya's Concept of "Governance in the Name of the Sacred Law"   Baber Johansen     259
Talking in Code: Legal Islamisation in Indonesia and the MMI Sharia Criminal Code   Tim Lindsey   Jeremy Kingsley     295
Sharia in the Secular State: A Paradox of Separation and Conflation   Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim     321
The Emergence of a New Quranic Hermeneutic: The Role and Impact of Universities in West and East   Bernard K. Freamon     342
Law and Historiography: Legal Typology of Lands and the Arab Conquests   Nimrod Hurvitz     360
Text and Application: Hermeneutical Reflections on Islamic Legal Interpretation   Bernard G. Weiss     374
Two Theories of the Obligation to Obey God's Commands   Aron Zysow     397
List of Contributors     423
Index     429