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Sharīʻa : theory, practice, transformations / Wael B. Hallaq.

By: Hallaq, Wael B, 1955-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009Description: ix, 614 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521861472 (hbk.); 0521861470 (hbk.)Subject(s): Islamic law -- History | Islamic law | Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction | Islamic law -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 340.5909 LOC classification: KBP144 | .H35 2009Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information
Contents:
The formative period -- Legal theory : epistemology, language and legal reasoning -- Legal education and the politics of law -- Law and society -- The circle of justice and later dynasties -- The legal pillars of religion -- Contracts and othe obligations -- Family law and succession -- Property and ownership -- Offenses -- Jihād -- Courts of justice, suits and evidence -- The conceptual framework : an introduction -- The jural colonization of India and South-East-Asia -- Hegemonic modernity : the Middle East and North Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Modernizing the law in the age of nation-states -- In search of a legal methodology -- Repercussions: concluding notes.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 563-597) and index.

The formative period -- Legal theory : epistemology, language and legal reasoning -- Legal education and the politics of law -- Law and society -- The circle of justice and later dynasties -- The legal pillars of religion -- Contracts and othe obligations -- Family law and succession -- Property and ownership -- Offenses -- Jihād -- Courts of justice, suits and evidence -- The conceptual framework : an introduction -- The jural colonization of India and South-East-Asia -- Hegemonic modernity : the Middle East and North Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Modernizing the law in the age of nation-states -- In search of a legal methodology -- Repercussions: concluding notes.

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