The theory and the practice of market law in medieval Islam : a study of Kitāb Niṣāb al-Iḥtisāb of ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Sunāmī (fl. 7th-8th/13th-14th century)

Author(s)

• ʿIzz al-Dīn, Mūʾil Yūsuf
• Sanāmī, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAwaḍ

Bibliographic Information

The theory and the practice of market law in medieval Islam : a study of Kitāb Niṣāb al-Iḥtisāb of ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Sunāmī (fl. 7th-8th/13th-14th century)

by M. Izzi Dien

Gibb Memorial Trust, c1997

Note

Translated from the Arabic

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-247)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book represents an explanation of the institution of hisba in medieval Islam, through one of the most used texts in the field. It includes a thorough translation of the text, written by a practising muhtasib, scholar and judge, together with accompanying biographical and bibliographical notes. The book is unique being the only English work on medieval Hanafi law of hisba.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Method of Transliteration
• Chapter 1 The Nisab and its author
• Chapter 2 The value of Nisab al-ihtisab
• Chapter 3 English translation and annotation on Nisab al-ihtisab
• Chapter 4 The manuscripts of Nisab
• Bibliography and Abbreviations.

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Details

• NCID: BA52016302
• ISBN:
  • 090609433X
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ara
• Place of Publication: [Warminster]
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 247 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : KBP1619.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Muḥtasib
  • LCSH : Sanāmī, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAwaḍ. Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb
  • LCSH : Commercial law (Islamic law)