Introduction: Ten threshold issues -- Muhammad (PBUH) before prophethood (570/571-610 A.D.) -- Muhammad (PBUH) as prophet (610-632 A.D.) -- Holy Qur'ān (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 - Shīʻite split (632-680 A.D.) -- Shīʻism and its Imāmate (680-940 A.D.) -- Ottoman Turkish Empire (11th Century-1923 A.D) -- Moghul Indian Empire (1504-1857 A.D.) -- Fundamental sources : Holy Qurʼān and Sunnah -- Secondary sources : Ījmaʻ 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 (Ribā) -- Banking law : legal devices (Ḥiyal) and prohibition on interest (Ribā) -- Finance (Tamweel) : Islamic bonds (Ṣukūk) and securitization -- Finance (Tamweel) : types and risks of Islamic bonds (Ṣukūk) -- Finance (Tamweel) : insurance (Takaful) and 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 -- Glossary of Arabic terms.
Summary:
"This critically-acclaimed treatise provides both newcomers and experts with clear, accessible, and comprehensive materials and critical comparative analyses for the study of Islamic Law. It embraces the entire history, religion, and law of Islam, both Sunni and Shī'a, and covers all pertinent fields: banking and finance, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, family law, inheritance, international law, and property. The book includes a user-friendly Glossary of Arabic terms, in English, with diacritical marks to assist in pronunciation. Balanced, logically organized, and well-written, the text can be used without supplementation in a one-semester Islamic Law course, and it has been used in law schools and graduate programs around the world and in programs for United States Special Operations Forces. Every chapter is thoroughly updated to incorporate recent developments and scholarship, with new chapters on the Constitution of Iran, the Taliban, and the Afghanistan War"-- Provided by publisher.
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