Islamic law

Although there was a simple way to practice credit reporting in the past, in its organized and developed form credit reporting is considered new to international society in general. The first act to regulate credit reporting was established in the last quarter of the twentieth c…

This thesis examines the dynamic interplay of the shared legal, personal, and societal commitments of mustaftis (petitioners), and muftis at Cairo's Dar Al-Iftaa, the official fatwa council, where I observed 140 fatwa sessions mostly concerning marital disputes. It focuses on th…

The earliest hadith collections treat the precedent of the Companions as a significant source of law, yet in time some of the most distinguished thinkers of Islamic history would categorically deny the legal authority of the Companions. How did reliance on a legal source that wa…

This work will cover in detail the issues of representation, falsity, factuality, materiality, fraud, inducement and damage. It will also examine other important issues such as exceptions to the rule requiring factuality, exceptions to the rule requiring materiality (plus the ge…

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Groups of companies offer considerable economic and practical advantages over other forms of business organizations. However, the phenomenon creates a long list of problems in terms of antitrust law, tax law, labour law, corporate law, and in the case of international companies,…

This thesis aims to examine the intellectual property regimes in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) states and assess the relationships between legislation, enforcement mechanisms and sharia law. The GCC states, currently Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar, all …

This thesis will examine whether Saudi Arabia's adoption of New York Convention 1958 will improve the recognition and enforcement of international arbitral award in the country, and consequently provide a better investment environment for non-Saudi investors. The examination wil…

The integrity of financial markets is threatened by a number of harmful practices. These are often generally described as ‘market abuse’. Market abuse comprises two practices: insider dealing and market manipulation. This thesis mainly explores market manipulation and the releva…

In certain contemporary Muslim majority states apostasy and blasphemy are not merely religious sins; they are acts which potentially have legal, or extra-legal, consequences. Although apostasy has not been criminalised in many such states, extrajudicial killings of apostates are…

The emergence of the theory of maqāṣid al-sharīʿa as a legal theory, which is a purposive approach to the law in which the main purposes of the law are considered as deriving elements of the legal rulings, has occurred in a particular socio-political and cultural context for the…

My dissertation examines a wide range of social and political impacts that have emerged from the state implementation of Syari’ah (Sharia) in the Indonesian province of Aceh within the last two-decades. Syari’ah is Islamic way of belief and practice but in Aceh it was initially …

Akitler, toplumsal hayatın vazgeçilmez unsurlarından biri olup sosyal hayatta kurulan hukuki ilişkilerin pek çoğu akitlere dayanmaktadır. Bu sebeple tarih boyunca tüm hukuki sistemler, borçlar hukukunun temelini oluşturan akitlere ilişkin düzenlemeler getirmiştir. Hukuk sistemle…

This dissertation was mainly based upon the Manchu and Chinese criminal archives related to the Qing period Huijiang, a Muslim frontier where the main population were Huiren, a Turkic-speaking Muslim group, collected in the First Historical Archives in Beijing. It discusses how …

Despite a near-universal acknowledgement of the Prophet Muḥammad’s supreme eloquence in the Islamic tradition, ḥadīth (his recorded speech and deeds) is largely absent from the earliest discussions of Arabic grammar. The standard explanation for this absence, forwarded by the 8t…