"Should shari'a law be introduced into the British legal system? Elham Manea explores this question as a human rights activist and Arab scholar who identifies herself as Muslim. In response to recent media controversy and public debate about legal pluralism and multiculturalism,…
Calls for reform of the historical formulations of Islamic law (sharia) in the context of modern constitutionalism, criminal justice, modern international law and basic human rights. Drawing upon the teachings and writings of the Sudanese reformer, Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, this stu…
"Al-Qāḍimal-Nu'mān was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available in English for the first time his major work on Islamic legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh), which presents a legal model in support …
"This book provides a detailed analysis of Islamic juristic writings on the topic of rape and argues that classical Islamic jurisprudence contained nuanced, substantially divergent doctrines of sexual violation as a punishable crime. The work centers on legal discourses of the f…