Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista
Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista

Author: Alan Verskin

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-01-27

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9004284532

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The Reconquista left unprecedentedly large numbers of Muslims living under Christian rule. Since Islamic religious and legal institutions had been developed by scholars who lived under Muslim rule and who assumed this condition as a given, how Muslims should proceed in the absence of such rule became the subject of extensive intellectual investigation. In Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista, Alan Verskin examines the way in which the Iberian school of Mālikī law developed in response to the political, theological, and practical difficulties posed by the Reconquista. He shows how religious concepts, even those very central to the Islamic religious experience, could be rethought and reinterpreted in order to respond to the changing needs of Muslims.

Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment

Author: Ahmet T. Kuru

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1108419097

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Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.

Islamic Jurisprudence on the Regulation of Armed Conflict
Islamic Jurisprudence on the Regulation of Armed Conflict

Author: Nesrine Badawi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9004410627

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In Islamic Jurisprudence on the Regulation of Armed Conflict: Text and Context, Nesrine Badawi argues against the existence of a “true” interpretation of the rules regulating armed conflict in Islamic law. In a survey of formative and modern seminal legal works on the subject, the author sheds light on the role played by the sociopolitical context in shaping this branch of jurisprudence and offers a detailed examination of the internal deductive structures of these works.

Dār al-Islām Revisited
Dār al-Islām Revisited

Author: Sarah Albrecht

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9004364579

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Where is dār al-islām, and who defines its boundaries in the 21st century? In Dār al-Islām Revisited. Territoriality in Contemporary Islamic Legal Discourse on Muslims in the West, Sarah Albrecht explores the variety of ways in which contemporary Sunni Muslim scholars, intellectuals, and activists reinterpret the Islamic legal tradition of dividing the world into dār al-islām, the “territory of Islam,” dār al-ḥarb, the “territory of war,” and other geo-religious categories. Starting with an overview of the rich history of debate about this tradition, this book traces how and why territorial boundaries have remained a matter of controversy until today. It shows that they play a crucial role in current discussions of religious authority, identity, and the interpretation of the shariʿa in the West.

Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law
Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law

Author: Khaled Abou El Fadl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-10

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1317622448

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This handbook is a detailed reference source comprising original articles covering the origins, history, theory and practice of Islamic law. The handbook starts out by dealing with the question of what type of law is Islamic law and includes a critical analysis of the pedagogical approaches to studying and analysing Islamic law as a discipline. The handbook covers a broad range of issues, including the role of ethics in Islamic jurisprudence, the mechanics and processes of interpretation, the purposes and objectives of Islamic law, constitutional law and secularism, gender, bioethics, Muslim minorities in the West, jihad and terrorism. Previous publications on this topic have approached Islamic law from a variety of disciplinary and pedagogical perspectives. One of the original features of this handbook is that it treats Islamic law as a legal discipline by taking into account the historical functions and processes of legal cultures and the patterns of legal thought. With contributions from a selection of highly regarded and leading scholars in this field, the Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law is an essential resource for students and scholars who are interested in the field of Islamic Law.

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 15 Thematic Essays (600-1600)
Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 15 Thematic Essays (600-1600)

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9004423702

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Christian-Muslim Relations, Volume 15, Thematic Essays (600-1600) is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. The chapters within it illustrate the range, complexity, and dynamics of interaction between the two faiths during the first thousand years of encounter. All chapters primarily draw upon entries found in volumes 1-7 of Christian-Muslim Relations. They explore tropes of perception, image and judgement that each religious community held in respect to the other through these centuries, and discuss issues and topics that occupied Christians and Muslims in their interaction. The first millennium sets the scene for the modern era and our understandings of contemporary relations and issues. Contributors are Mark Beaumont, Clinton Bennett, David Bertaina, Ulisse Ceceni, David Bryan Cook, Martha Frederiks, Ayşe İçöz, Sandra Keating, James Harry Morris, Nicholas Morton, Gordon Nickel, Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Tom Papademetriou, Gabriel Said Reynolds, Christian Sahner, Mark N. Swanson, Mourad Takawi, Luke Yarbrough.

Islamic Law in an Age of Crisis and Consolidation: 'Izz Al-Din Ibn 'Abd Al-Salam (577-660/1187-1262) and the Ethical Turn in Medieval Islamic Law
Islamic Law in an Age of Crisis and Consolidation: 'Izz Al-Din Ibn 'Abd Al-Salam (577-660/1187-1262) and the Ethical Turn in Medieval Islamic Law

Author: Mariam Sheibani

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780438756045

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This dissertation examines the thought of 'Izz al-Din Ibn 'Abd al-Salam (577-660/1187-1262), a leading jurist of the Shafii legal school in Ayyubid Damascus and Egypt, and his role in the emergence of a systematic, ethical, and socially responsive legal discourse among Muslim jurists between the fifth/eleventh and seventh/thirteenth centuries. It reconstructs and situates his life within the context of sweeping geo-political transformations that precipitated the destruction of the intellectual centers in the Muslim East, the emergence of the Ayyubid then Mamluk polities, and the restoration of Damascus and Cairo as important centers of Sunni learning.

The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan
The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan

Author: Lúcio De Sousa

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-01-21

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 9004388079

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In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Lúcio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan, using the Portuguese mercantile networks; reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.

The Power of Cities
The Power of Cities

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 9004399690

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The Power of Cities is an interdisciplinary, cultural-comparative volume on Iberian urban studies. It is the first attempt to bring together recent research on the transformation of Iberian cities from Late Antiquity to the 18th century combining archaeological and historical sources.