Islamic Law in Context

Introduction Robert Gleave and Omar Anchassi; Part I. Islamic Legal Theory (Uṣūl al-Fiqh) and Related Genres: 1. The Foundation of Analogy Ziad Bou Akl; 2. The Insufficiency of Concomitance Alone Walter Edward Young; 3. Selections from al-Manthūr fī-l-Qawāʾid of Badr al-Dīn al-Zarkashī (d. 794/1392) Elias G. Saba; 4. 'Is Every Mujtahid Correct or Not?' and the implications of holding incorrect theological beliefs for one's fate in the hereafter, from Qawānīn al-Uṣūl of Mīrzā al-Qummī (d. 1231/1816) Ali-reza Bhojani; 5. The 'Innovation' of Legal School Affiliation Robert Gleave; Part II. Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Related Genres: 6. The Kitāb al-Umma, or Ṣaḥīfat al-Madīna Rehanna Nurmohamed; 7. Section on lawful food from al-Mabsūṭ fī Fiqh al-Imāmiyya of Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067) Sumeyra Yakar; 8. 'The Treatise of Refutation of those who Criticise [Our] Conduct' (Kitāb al-Radd ʿalā man Ṭaʿana fī l-Sīra) attributed to Imam al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh, Aḥmad b. Sulaymān (d. 566/1170) Eirik Hovden; 9. Menstruating Women and Visiting the Mosque Robert Gleave; 10. Section on the law of rebellion from the Radd al-Muḥtār of Ibn ʿĀbidīn (d. 1252/1836) Aysegul Simsek; 11. Offer and Acceptance in Islamic Marriage Robert Gleave; 12. Treatise on Jihad and Migration Magomed Gizbulaev; 13. Alms Tax (zakā) in Shīʿī Law Maryam Rutner; 14. A Difficult Case of Divorce, Tholaq Samvadam of ʿAbd Allāh Musliyār (b. ?) Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin; Part III. Legal Opinions (Fatwās): 15. Ottoman Fatwās on the Substitution of Defunct Endowment Properties, from al-Aqwāl al-Marḍiyya of Qāḍīzādah Muḥammad Ṭāhir (d. 1254/1834) Hatice Kubra; 16. Settling Disputes among Nomads Ismail Warscheid; 17. Fatwās on Aspects of Modern Life Knut S. Vikør; 18. 'According to the qaul muʿtamad it is unlawful and invalid' Mohamad Bekti Khudari Lantong; 19. Women and Leadership Mahmoud Afifi; 20. 'His doctrine is deviant' Mukhsin Achmed; Part IV. Court Judgements and other Court Documentation: 21. The Restitituion of Conjugal Rights Sohaira Siddiqui; 22. A Sharīʿa Court Judgement of Muḥammad Ḥusayn Fishārakī (d. 1353/1935) reviving the Safavid Waqf of Mīrzā Aḥmad Kafrānī (d. after 988/1580) Zahir Bhalloo; 23. Authenticating Marriage Monika Lindbekk; 24. Judgment of the Moroccan Supreme Council of Sharīʿa Appeals, Ruling #52 on Issue #4164 concerning Inheritance, Slavery, and Paternity (1359/1943) Ari Schriber; 25. Sharīʿa, Sales and Loans in the Malaysian High Court Amir Shaharuddin; 26. A Sharīʿa Court Decision on the Type of 'Compensation' in huləʾə/khulʿ Divorce Asnakech Getnet; Part V. Judicial Manuals and Reference Books: 27. 'The Discretion of the İmâm' Kubra Nugay; 28. On Criminal Law Mina Khalil; 29. Custody Disputes and the Best Interest of the Child, from al-Murshid fī l-Qaḍāʾ al-Sharʿī by Qāḍī Iyad Zahalka Nijmi Edres; 30. Ibn Khunyan (b. 1376/1956) on Ajudication and Judicial Organisation, from al-Kāshif fī Sharḥ Niẓām al-Murāfaʿāt al-Sharʿiyya al-Saʿūdī ('A Commentary on the Saudi Code of Sharīʿa Procedure') Dominik Krell; 31. Temporary Marriage in Iranian Family Law Hannah L. Richter; 32. On Scriptuaries and Pagans as Slave-Concubines Omar Anchassi; Part VI. Alternative Sources for Islamic Legal Studies: Licenses, Biographies, Pamphlets, Speeches and Novels: 33. Reform of Islamic Law in 19th century Afghanistan Elham Bakhtary; 34. The 'Permission to Teach' the Law Robert Gleave; 35. Controversial and Uncontroversial Biographies in Rayḥānat al-Adab of Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Mudarris (d. 1373/1954) Robert Gleave; 36. Battle of the Qāḍīs Mahmood Kooria; 37. Aḥlām al-Naṣr and the Islamic State's Justification for Execution by Burning Mathias Ghyoot.