Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law
Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law

Author: Patricia Crone

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-07-18

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780521529495

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This book tests the hypothesis that Roman law was a formative influence on Islamic law.

The Spirit of Islamic Law
The Spirit of Islamic Law

Author: Bernard G. Weiss

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0820328278

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Focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh is concerned with the articulation of actual rules of law, this science attempts to elaborate the theoretical and methodological foundations of the law. It outlines the features of Muslim juristic thought.

Islamic Law (RLE Politics of Islam)
Islamic Law (RLE Politics of Islam)

Author: Aziz Al-Azmeh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-03

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 113461005X

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This book underlines the mutability of Islamic law and attempts to relate its substantive and institutional varieties and transformations to social, political, economic and other historical circumstances. The studies in the book range from discussion of the received wisdom in Islamic law to studies of legal institutions and the theoretical means employed by Islamic law for the accommodation of changing historical circumstances. First published in 1988.

Roman Law & Comparative Law
Roman Law & Comparative Law

Author: Alan Watson

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0820312614

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Provides a comprehensive description of the system of Roman law, discussing slavery, property, contracts, delicts and succession. Also examines the ways in which Roman law influenced later legal systems such as the structure of European legal systems, tort law in the French civil code, differences between contract law in France and Germany, parameters of judicial reasoning, feudal law, and the interests of governments in making and communicating law.

Law and Religion in the Roman Republic
Law and Religion in the Roman Republic

Author: Olga Tellegen-Couperus

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-11-25

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 9004218505

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Drawing on epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic sources, this book reveals how, in the Roman Republic, law and religion interacted to serve the same purpose, the continued growth and consolidation of Rome’s power.

Law and Empire
Law and Empire

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9004249516

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Law and Empire provides a comparative view of legal practices in Asia and Europe, from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. It relates the main principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. In particular, it shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways. Rulers could use law effectively as an instrument of domination; legal specialists built their identity, livelihood and social status on their knowledge of law; and non-elites exploited the range of legal fora available to them. This volume shows the relevance of legal pluralism and the social relevance of litigation for premodern power structures.