Understanding Islamic law (Sharīʾa)
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Understanding Islamic law (Sharīʾa)
Carolina Academic Press, c2023
3rd ed
- : hardcover
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Includes index
Contents of Works
- Muhammad (PBUH) before prophethood (570/571-610 A.D.)
- Muhammad (PBUH) as prophet (610-632 A.D.)
- Holy Qur'ân (610-650 A.D.) : revelation, compilation, and tenets
- Caliphs of Mecca and Medina (Rashidun) (632-661 A.D.)
- Umayyad Caliphate (661-750 A.D.)
- Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258 A.D.)
- The Crusades (1095-1272 A.D.)
- Sunni - Shīʾīte split (632-680 A.D.)
- Shīʾīsm and its Imâmate (680-940 A.D.)
- Ottoman Turkish Empire (11th Century-1923 A.D.)
- Moghul Indian Empire (1504-1857 A.D.)
- Fundamental sources : holy Qur'ân and Sunnah
- Secondary sources : Îjmaʻ and Qiyās
- Controversial additional sources
- Five pillars of Islam
- Four Sunnite Schools of Islamic law
- Islam and capitalist economic growth
- Property law : ownership and property
- Property law : public property, private property, and possession
- Property law : protecting and restricting private ownership
- Contract law : general principles and contract formation
- Contract law : types of contracts
- Contract law : performance, terms, and remedies
- Business associations law : traditional types of partnership
- Business associations law : modern partnerships and agricultural ventures
- Banking law : risk (Gharar)
- Banking law : Interest (Rībā)
- Banking law : legal devices (Ḥiyal) and the prohibition on interest (Rībā)
- Finance (Tamweel) : Islamic bonds (Ṣukūk) and securitization
- Finance (Tamweel) : types and risks of Islamic bonds (Ṣukūk)
- Finance (Tamweel) : insurance (Takaful) and money transfers (Ḥawālah)
- Finance (Tamweel) : innovative instruments and markets
- Marriage and divorce
- Polygamy and mixed marriages
- Rights of wife
- Women and clothes
- Women and work
- Rearing children
- Contraception
- Abortion
- Wills (Waṣāyā), charitable trusts (Waqfs), and euthanasia
- Law of succession
- Key concepts
- Claims of God (Ḥaqq Allāh) : sex crimes
- Claims of God (Ḥaqq Allāh) : drinking and stealing
- Claims of God (Ḥaqq Allāh) : converting and religious freedom
- Private claims (Ḥaqq Ādamī)
- Overview of Iran's 1979 Islamic Republic Constitution
- Nine themes in Iran's 1979 Islamic Republic Constitution
- Law of war
- Jihād (struggle)
- Terrorism
- Taliban origins and America's longest war
- Taliban return to power