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Sharīʻa : theory, practice, transformations /
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- The formative period
- Legal theory : epistemology, language and legal reasoning
- Legal education and the politics of law
- Law and society
- The circle of justice and later dynasties
- The legal pillars of religion
- Contracts and othe obligations
- Family law and succession
- Property and ownership
- Offenses
- Jihād
- Courts of justice, suits and evidence
- The conceptual framework : an introduction
- The jural colonization of India and South-East-Asia
- Hegemonic modernity : the Middle East and North Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Modernizing the law in the age of nation-states
- In search of a legal methodology
- Repercussions: concluding notes.