Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista
Title | Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Verskin |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2015-01-27 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004284532 |
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
Title | Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment PDF eBook |
Author | Ahmet T. Kuru |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 323 |
Release | 2019-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108419097 |
Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.
Embracing Muslims in a Catholic Land: Rethinking the Genesis of Islām in Mexico
Title | Embracing Muslims in a Catholic Land: Rethinking the Genesis of Islām in Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Benzion |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 2022-02-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004510311 |
This work is an academic pursuit that aims to produce innovative scholarly general interest that explores, through a fresh perspective and from a historical approach and a multidisciplinary angle, an understudied subject of Colonial and Early Independent Mexico’s History: Islam.
Islamic Jurisprudence on the Regulation of Armed Conflict
Title | Islamic Jurisprudence on the Regulation of Armed Conflict PDF eBook |
Author | Nesrine Badawi |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004410627 |
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
Title | Dār al-Islām Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Albrecht |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 490 |
Release | 2018-04-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004364579 |
In Dār al-Islām Revisited, Sarah Albrecht explores how the Islamic legal tradition of dividing the world into the “territory of Islam” and other geo-religious categories is reinterpreted today and how it impacts current debates on religious authority, identity, and the interpretation of the shariʿa in the West.
Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law
Title | Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law PDF eBook |
Author | Khaled Abou El Fadl |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2019-05-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1317622448 |
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.
Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614
Title | Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614 PDF eBook |
Author | Brian A. Catlos |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 649 |
Release | 2014-03-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521889391 |
An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.