Authors: Sami Zubaida
ISBN-13: 9781850439349, ISBN-10: 1850439346
Format: Paperback
Publisher: I. B.Tauris & Company, Limited
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Sami Zubaida is Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Islam, the People and the State (I.B.Tauris).
Islamic law (the Shari'a) and its application is a central issue in contemporary Islamic politics and culture. Starting from modern concerns, this book examines the origins and evolution of the Shari'a and the corpus of texts, concepts and practices in which it has been enshrined. Sami Zubaida here considers key historical episodes of political accommodations and contests between scholars and sultans. Drawing on modern examples, mainly from Egypt and Iran, Zubaida explores how the Shari'a has evolved and mutated to accommodate the workings of a modern state.
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Concepts, Origins and Mutations | 10 |
2 | Institutions: Courts, Qadis and Muftis | 40 |
3 | The Shari'a and Political Authority | 74 |
4 | The Age of Reform: The Etatization of Law | 121 |
5 | The Shari'a in Modern Debates and Institutions: Egypt | 158 |
6 | The Politics of the Shari'a in Iran | 182 |
Conclusion | 220 | |
Notes on the Text | 225 | |
References | 231 | |
Glossary | 237 | |
Index | 240 |