Authors: Wael B. Hallaq
ISBN-13: 9780521678742, ISBN-10: 0521678749
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: May 2009
Edition: New Edition
Wael B. Hallaq is James McGill Professor in Islamic Law in the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. He is a world-renowned scholar whose publications include The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law (Cambridge, 2004), Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law (Cambridge, 2001) and A History of Islamic Legal Theories (Cambridge, 1997).
Wael Hallaq's magisterial overview of Shari'a examines the doctrines and practices of Islamic law from the seventh century to the present.
Preface and acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part I The pre-modern tradition 25
1 The formative period 27
2 Legal theory: epistemology, language and legal reasoning 72
3 Legal education and the politics of law 125
4 Law and society 159
5 The Circle of Justice and later dynasties 197
Part II The law: an outline 223
6 The legal pillars of religion 225
7 Contracts and other obligations 239
8 Family law and succession 271
9 Property and ownership 296
10 Offenses 308
11 Jih&abar;d 324
12 Courts of justice, suits and evidence 342
Part III The sweep of modernity 355
13 The conceptual framework: an introduction 357
14 The jural colonization of India and South-East Asia 371
15 Hegemonic modernity: the Middle East and North Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 396
16 Modernizing the law in the age of nation-states 443
17 In search of a legal methodology 500
18 Repercussions: concluding notes 543
Appendix A Contents of substantive legal works 551
Appendix B Chronology 556
Bibliography 563
Index 598