Law And Power In The Islamic World

Author : Sami Zubaida
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714260
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Power in the Islamic World written by Sami Zubaida and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic law (the Shari'a) and its application is a central issue in contemporary Islamic politics and culture. Starting from modern concerns, this book examines the origins and evolution of the Shari'a and the corpus of texts, concepts and practices in which it has been enshrined. The central paradox in this history is one of power: the Shari'a is jurist's law, theoretically derived from sacred sources, yet dependent for its institution and application on rulers, with their own agendas and priorities. Sami Zubaida here considers key historical episodes of political accommodations and contests between scholars and sultans. Drawing on modern examples, mainly from Egypt and Iran, Zubaida explores how the Shari'a has evolved and mutated to accommodate the workings of a modern state by examining the reforms of the 19th and 20th centuries and the politics of the contemporary world. Law and Power in the Islamic World is an original and significant contribution to the debates surrounding Islam and ideas of modernity. As such its appeal and importance range across a wide spectrum of readers, students and scholars interested in Islamic law and the politics and social structures of the Muslim world. "Extremely informed and highly readable: unlike any previous writings on the subject, it combines deep historical analysis with a vital sociological and political perspective. In these difficult times, it will be required reading both for experts and for the general reader with any serious interest in the world today." Eberhard Kienle, SOAS.

Author : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608814
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Law written by Hunt Janin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sharia is a set of traditional laws that define a Muslim's obligations to God and his fellow human beings. Westerners often misunderstand the nature of the sharia, born as it is of a complicated legal and academic tradition that may not always seem relevant to today's world. Written for those unfamiliar with Islam, this volume provides an accurate and objective assessment of the sharia's achievements, shortcomings and future prospects. It explores the fundamentals of Islam and traditional sharia laws. In addition, the sharia is discussed with respect to Ottoman law, puritanism and jihad. The sharia's relevance to today's world events is also explored. Among items provided in appendices are a commentary on a Western translation of the concept of jihad and an analysis of the sharia in 29 selected countries.

Author : Bernard G. Weiss
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820328278
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Islamic Law written by Bernard G. Weiss and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : James Norman Dalrymple Anderson
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law Reform in the Muslim World written by James Norman Dalrymple Anderson and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1976 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noah Feldman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400845025
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State written by Noah Feldman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His scholarship has defined the stakes in the Middle East today. Now, in this incisive book, Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the shari'a--the law of the traditional Islamic state--in the modern Muslim world. Western powers call it a threat to democracy. Islamist movements are winning elections on it. Terrorists use it to justify their crimes. What, then, is the shari'a? Given the severity of some of its provisions, why is it popular among Muslims? Can the Islamic state succeed--should it? Feldman reveals how the classical Islamic constitution governed through and was legitimated by law. He shows how executive power was balanced by the scholars who interpreted and administered the shari'a, and how this balance of power was finally destroyed by the tragically incomplete reforms of the modern era. The result has been the unchecked executive dominance that now distorts politics in so many Muslim states. Feldman argues that a modern Islamic state could provide political and legal justice to today's Muslims, but only if new institutions emerge that restore this constitutional balance of power. The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State gives us the sweeping history of the traditional Islamic constitution--its noble beginnings, its downfall, and the renewed promise it could hold for Muslims and Westerners alike. In a new introduction, Feldman discusses developments in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and other Muslim-majority countries since the Arab Spring and describes how Islamists must meet the challenge of balance if the new Islamic states are to succeed.

Author : Trudee Romanek
Publisher : Life in the Early Islamic Worl
ISBN 13 : 9780778721680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government and Law in the Early Islamic World written by Trudee Romanek and published by Life in the Early Islamic Worl. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Government and law in the early Islamic world looks at how Islamic societies chose their leaders, set up and developed rules and regulations for everyday life, and punished those who committed crimes. Many of the historic systems of government, law, and order are used in the Islamic world today."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : John Victor Tolan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691147051
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe and the Islamic World written by John Victor Tolan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this ... book, three .. historians bring tio life the complex and tumultuous relations between Genoans and Tunisians, Alexandrians and the people of Constantinople, Catalans and Maghrebis - the myriad groups and individuals whose stories reflect the common cultural and religious heritage of Europe and Islam. Since the seventh century, when the armies of Constantinople and the Medina fought for control of Syria and Palestine, there has been ongoing contact between the Muslim world and the West. This sweeping history recounts the wars and the crusades, the alliances and diplomacy, commerce and the slave trade, technology transfers, and the intellectual and artistic exchanges. [Readers] are given an ... introduction to key periods and events, including the Muslim conquests, the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, the commercial revolution of the medieval Mediterranean, the intellectual and cultural achievements of Muslim Spain, the crusades and Spanish reconquista, the rise of the Ottomans and their conquest of a third of Europe, European colonization and decolonization, and the challenges and promises of this entwined legacy today. ..."--Jacket.

Author : Boğaç A. Ergene
Publisher : Ei Reference Guides
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judicial Practice written by Boğaç A. Ergene and published by Ei Reference Guides. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together edited articles from the second and third editions of the Encyclopaedia of Islam that are relevant to Islamic judicial practice, institutions, and agents. The material presented in this compilation identifies and explains key concepts germane to the application of Islamic law. It demonstrates the wide spectrum of variations in the functions and operations of judicial actors and institutions in different Islamic contexts, and reveals the complicated relationship between legal doctrine and practice. As such, this book constitutes a much-needed introductory volume and a convenient starting-point for readers interested in Islamic judicial practice.

Author : Timur Kuran
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836018
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Divergence written by Timur Kuran and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-11 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How religious barriers stalled capitalism in the Middle East In the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of Europe. But by 1800, the region had fallen dramatically behind—in living standards, technology, and economic institutions. In short, the Middle East had failed to modernize economically as the West surged ahead. What caused this long divergence? And why does the Middle East remain drastically underdeveloped compared to the West? In The Long Divergence, one of the world's leading experts on Islamic economic institutions and the economy of the Middle East provides a new answer to these long-debated questions. Timur Kuran argues that what slowed the economic development of the Middle East was not colonialism or geography, still less Muslim attitudes or some incompatibility between Islam and capitalism. Rather, starting around the tenth century, Islamic legal institutions, which had benefitted the Middle Eastern economy in the early centuries of Islam, began to act as a drag on development by slowing or blocking the emergence of central features of modern economic life—including private capital accumulation, corporations, large-scale production, and impersonal exchange. By the nineteenth century, modern economic institutions began to be transplanted to the Middle East, but its economy has not caught up. And there is no quick fix today. Low trust, rampant corruption, and weak civil societies—all characteristic of the region's economies today and all legacies of its economic history—will take generations to overcome. The Long Divergence opens up a frank and honest debate on a crucial issue that even some of the most ardent secularists in the Muslim world have hesitated to discuss.

Author : Edward Mortimer
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Power written by Edward Mortimer and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1982 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index. References: p.408-415 "Vintage Books."