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Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)

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Eighteen essays that reevaluate Muslim women and the Shari'a courts, the Ottoman household, and Dhimmi communities.

The Search for God's Law: Islamic Jurisprudence in the Writings of Sayf Al-Din Al-Amidi

Bernard G. Weiss

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Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500 (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

David S. Powers

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David Powers analyzes the application of Islamic law through six cases which took place during the period 1300 to 1500 in the Maghrib. The source for these disputes are fatwas issued by the muftis, which Powers uses to situate each case in its historical context and to interpret the principles of law. He demonstrates that, contrary to popular stereotypes, muftis were dedicated to reasoned argument. The book represents a ground-breaking approach to a complex subject area for students and scholars.

Islamic Money and Banking: Integrating Money in Capital Theory (Wiley Finance)

Iraj Toutounchian

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This book examines how money, in the absence of interest (Riba) and money market can become an endogenous variable of an economic system. It further tries to integrate money in capital theory and to make monetary sector part of the real sector aiming at removing the problems that arise from separation of the two.

Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law: The Origins of the Islamic Patronate (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

Patricia Crone

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Roman influences on Islamic Law 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 6 people found this review helpful.

If you are working in this area, like me, perhaps you have found nothing save P Crone's book published since the War. It would seem that the line went dead about 1945, somewhere in or around the Instituto per L'Oriente, Naples. I welcome this book as a revival of interest in the subject but not nearly as much as I would welcome advice, direction, comment, anything....on how to proceed to any other information on Roman influences on Islamic Law.

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This book examines the cultural origins of Islamic law. Some authorities stress the importance of the contribution of Roman law; others that of Arabian law. Most are agreed that Jewish law contributed, but not explained further. Dr Crone tests the Roman hypothesis with reference to one institution, the patronate, which does indeed appear to owe something to Roman law. He concludes that Roman law contributed only in so far as it was part and parcel of the rather different legal practice of the Near Eastern provinces, and that provincial law would repay further consideration by legal historians.

Sex and Society in Islam: Birth Control Before the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

B. F. Musallam

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In this study of birth control in the classical Islamic world, Basim Musallam demonstrates the wide range of evidence available to dispel many assumptions current today. Medieval Arabic discussions of contraception and abortion in Islamic jurisprudence, medicine, materia medica, belles lettres, erotica and popular literature show that birth control was sanctioned by Islamic law and opinion. Contraceptive methods were available throughout pre-modern times and were used to meet social, economic, personal and medical needs. Sex and Society in Islam considers the impact of birth control as a factor in demographic change, and therefore in social history.