Sharia And Justice

Author : Abbas Poya
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110574594
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharia and Justice written by Abbas Poya and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice is considered the basic norm of human coexistence. Every legal order refers to the concept of justice, and Muslims also regard their religious norms (the Sharia) as offering just solutions to legal questions. But is the assumption that the Sharia is just merely an acceptance of a status quo correct? And is justice the necessary aim of the Sharia? In this volume, renowned scholars discuss these questions from different perspectives. In principle, the first normative source of Islam, the Qur'an, orders justice and fair conduct (Rohe). At the same time, an analysis of the concept of justice in the classical age of Islam (Ahmed and Poya) also shows that there existed ambivalent understandings of this concept. The relationship of the idea of justice in Islam to political questions (Ende), to war (Poya), and to modern reform (Mir-Hosseini) again confirms the importance of the concept for a critical reflection on traditional assumptions and existing circumstances. The discussion on the hijab in Western countries (Ladwig) shows paradigmatically how justice can regulate the relationship between the secular state and the Sharia. The essays in this volume endeavor to show that debates about justice, in Islam as well, express an underlying tension between the perception of an order as just on the one hand, and the feeling of injustice under the same order on the other. This discussion validates the idea that justice should be understood as a concept subject to a perpetual reexamination according to changing times and circumstances.

Author : Abbas Poya
Publisher : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110683226
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharia and Justice written by Abbas Poya and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the sensitive question of the relationship between Sharia and justice. Is the Sharia oriented towards justice? Or is the Sharia simply the normative order of Islam and something quite apart from the question of justice? Then com

Author : Rudolph Peters
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004420622
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shariʿa, Justice and Legal Order written by Rudolph Peters and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shariʿa, Justice and Legal Order: Egyptian and Islamic Law: Selected Essays by Rudolph Peters is about legal practice, both Shariʿa and state law. Its principal themes are legal order and the actual application of law in the Ottoman and more recent periods

Author : Lawrence Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022651174X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and the Rule of Justice written by Lawrence Rosen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientations, images of binding doctrine and unbounded choice do not reflect the full reality of the Islamic law in its everyday practice. Whether in the Arabic-speaking world, the Muslim portions of South and Southeast Asia, or the countries to which many Muslims have migrated, Islamic law works is readily misunderstood if the local cultures in which it is embedded are not taken into account. With Islam and the Rule of Justice, Lawrence Rosen analyzes a number of these misperceptions. Drawing on specific cases, he explores the application of Islamic law to the treatment of women (who win most of their cases), the relations between Muslims and Jews (which frequently involve close personal and financial ties), and the structure of widespread corruption (which played a key role in prompting the Arab Spring). From these case studie the role of informal mechanisms in the resolution of local disputes. The author also provides a close reading of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was charged in an American court with helping to carry out the 9/11 attacks, using insights into how Islamic justice works to explain the defendant’s actions during the trial. The book closes with an examination of how Islamic cultural concepts may come to bear on the constitutional structure and legal reforms many Muslim countries have been undertaking.

Author : Rumee Ahmed
Publisher : Encountering Traditions
ISBN 13 : 9780804794015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharia Compliant written by Rumee Ahmed and published by Encountering Traditions. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the ins and outs of Islamic legal change and provides readers with step-by-step instructions for shaping the future of Islamic law.

Author : Abbas Amanat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804779538
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shari’a written by Abbas Amanat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents ten leading scholars' writings on contemporary Islamic law and Muslim thought. The essays examine a range of issues, from modern Muslim discourses on justice, natural law, and the common good, to democracy, the social contract, and "the authority of the preeminent jurist." Changes in how Shari'a has been understood over the centuries are explored, as well as how it has been applied in both Sunni and Shi'i Islam. Debates on the nature, interpretation, reform, and application of Shari'a lie at the core of all Islamist revivalist ideologies and movements of the past two centuries. The demand for the implementation of Shari'a is one of the hallmarks of Islamic fundamentalism, and Shari'a has become one of the most controversial and politicized concepts in Muslim-majority countries today. This is one of the first books to examine how Muslims understand and apply Shari'a in contemporary societies.

Author : Hauwa Ibrahim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614386759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practicing Shariah Law written by Hauwa Ibrahim and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practicing Law in Shariah Courts: Seven Strategies for Achieving Justice in Shariah Courts describes the Shariah courts of Northern Nigeria, and offers advice for counsel practicing in Shariah courts worldwide, particularly in cases involving women. In this important book, you'll find insight into practicing law in Shariah courts, and some questions that arise from being on the field, from the authors experience of seeking justice under these laws both legally and spiritually.

Author : Iza R. Hussin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022632348X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Islamic Law written by Iza R. Hussin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Politics of Islamic Law, Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of ‘Islamic law.’ She demonstrates that not only is Islamic law not the shari’ah, its present institutional forms, substantive content, symbolic vocabulary, and relationship to state and society—in short, its politics—are built upon foundations laid during the colonial encounter. Drawing on extensive archival work in English, Arabic, and Malay—from court records to colonial and local papers to private letters and visual material—Hussin offers a view of politics in the colonial period as an iterative series of negotiations between local and colonial powers in multiple locations. She shows how this resulted in a paradox, centralizing Islamic law at the same time that it limited its reach to family and ritual matters, and produced a transformation in the Muslim state, providing the frame within which Islam is articulated today, setting the agenda for ongoing legislation and policy, and defining the limits of change. Combining a genealogy of law with a political analysis of its institutional dynamics, this book offers an up-close look at the ways in which global transformations are realized at the local level.

Author : Lawrence Rosen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198298847
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Justice of Islam written by Lawrence Rosen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data ranging from the courts of North Africa to the treatment of Islam in American courts, these essays demonstrate the appeal of Islamic law in the lives of everyday adherents.

Author : Muḥammad K̲ālid Masud
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004140670
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispensing Justice in Islam written by Muḥammad K̲ālid Masud and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispensing Justice is designed to serve as a sourcebook of Islamic judicial practice and qadi judgments from the rise of Islam to modern times, drawing upon court records and qadi court records, in addition to literary sources. The volume fills a large gap in Islamic legal history. "Dispensing Justice" is designed to serve as a source book of Islamic judicial practice from the rise of Islam to modern times, drawing upon legal documents, qadi court records, archival marerials and literary souces. The volume fills a large ap in our understanding of Islamic legal history. (modified by Powers).