The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law

Summary

A landmark study of the most significant topics in field, The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law is the first of its kind to offer a systemically sustained critical interrogation of the study of Islamic law to date. With entries from leading scholars, this volume delivers a historiographical examination of Islamic law, familiarizing readers with some of the most important names and ideas in the field.

While capturing the state of contemporary legal studies by chronicling how far the field has come, the Handbook's unique strength lies in how each entry explains why certain debates recur in certain areas of study, while also indicating fundamental gaps in our knowledge of this legal tradition. Moreover, each entry charts out bold new avenues for research that map out the future study of Islamic law. The Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars and students of Islam and Islamic law for years to come.

Author Biography

Anver M. Emon, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Rumee Ahmed, Associate Professor of Islamic Law, University of British Columbia

Anver M. Emon is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law (OUP 2014), co-editor of the Oxford Islamic Legal Studies series, and founding editor of the journal Middle East Law and Governance.

Rumee Ahmed is Associate Professor of Islamic Law and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia.

Editors' Introduction, Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed
I. Discipline and Critique
A. Islamic Legal Studies
1. Islamic Legal Studies: A Critical Historiography, Ayesha Chaudhry
2. Fiqh, Anver M. Emon
3. Islamic Law and Gender, Saadia Yacoob
4. Islamic Law and Theology, Rumee Ahmed
5. Anthropology and Islamic Law, John R. Bowen
6. Falsafa and Law, Andrew F. March
Part II Legal Theory and Institutions
A. Legal Theory
7. Ijtihad, Anver M. Emon
8. Imami Shi'i Legal Theory: From its Origins to the Early-Twentieth Century, Robert Gleave
9. Custom in the Islamic Legal Tradition, Ayman Shabana
10. The Historiography of Sunni Usul al-Fiqh, Youcef Soufi
11. Ijma', Mairaj U. Syed
B. Institutions
12. al-Qadi, Mohammad Fadel
13. Hisba and Muhtasib, Kristen Stilt and M. Safa Saracoglu
14. The Mazalim in Historiography, Matthieu Tillier
Part III Origins, Empires, and States
A. Historical Studies
15. Origins of and Influences on Islamic law, Benjamin Jokisch
16. The Classical Period: Scripture, Origins, and Early Development, Mariam Sheibani, Amir Toft, and Ahmed El Shamsy
17. The Age of Development and Continuity, 12th-15th Centuries CE, Marion Katz
18. The Historiography of Islamic Law During the Mamluk Sultanate, Matthew B. Ingalls
19. Law in the Ottoman Empire, Haim Gerber
20. A Historiography of Islamic Law in the Mughal Empire, M. Reza Pirbhai
21. Delivering Justice: The Monarch's 'Urfi Courts and the Shari'a in Safavid Iran, Rula Jurdi Abisaab
22. Anglo-Muhammadan Law, Syed Adnan Hussain
23. Legislation as an Instrument of Islamic Law, Leonard Wood
Part IV Regional Variations
A. Muslim-Majority States
24. Islamic Law and Society in Southeast Asia, Melissa Crouch
25. Islamic Law in Post-Revolutionary Iran, Antonia Fraser Fujinaga
26. The Turkish Republic, Ruth A. Miller
27. Islamic Law in South Asia: A Testament to Diversity, Jeff Redding
B. Muslim Minorities
28. The Incorporation of Shari'a in North America: Enforcing the Mahr to Combat Women's Poverty Post-Relationship Dissolution, Natasha Bakht
29. Islamic Law in Western Europe, Mathias Rohe
30. Shari'a in Australia, Abdullah Saeed
Part V Substantive Legal Areas
A. Case Studies
31. Islamic Law and Constitutions, Nathan J. Brown and Mara Revkin
32. Islamic Law and Human Rights, Shannon Dunn
33. Islamic Law and Finance, Anver M. Emon
34. Animals, Kristen Stilt
35. A Historiography of Islamic Family Law, Lynn Welchman
Index

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