Islamic Studies: a Bibliography (books—in English)

VII – Jurisprudence: Abou El Fadl, Khaled.Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Abou El Fadl, Khaled.Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women. Oxford, England: Oneworld, 2001.

Ahmad, Kassim.Hadith: A Re-evaluation. Fremont, CA: Universal Unity, 1997.

El-Alami, Dawoud S.The Marriage Contract in Islamic Law. London: Graham & Trotman, 1992.

Algar, Hamid, trans.Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Berkeley, CA: Mizan Press, 1980.

Anderson, J.N.D.Law Reform in the Muslim World. London: Athlone Press, 1976.

An-Na’im, Abdullahi Ahmed.Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and International Law. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Arabi, Oussama.Studies in Modern Islamic Law and Jurisprudence. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2001.

Asad, Muhammad.Principles of State and Government in Islam. London: Islamic Book Trust, 1980.

Azami, M.M.On Schacht’s Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. New York: John Wiley, 1985.

al-Azmeh, Aziz, ed.Islamic Law: Social and Historical Contexts. London: Routledge, 1988.

Bakhtiar, Laleh, trans. and ed.Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools. Chicago, IL: Kazi Publ., 1996.

Bowen, John R. Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Brockopp, Jonathan E.Early Mālikī Law: Ibn ‘Abd al-Hakam and his Major Compendium  Jurisprudence. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000.

Burton, John.The Sources of Islamic Law: Islamic Theories of Abrogation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990.

Burton, John.An Introduction to the Hadith. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994.

Calder, Norman.Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Christelow, Alan.Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial State in Algeria. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Cotran, Eugene, ed.Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law: 1999-2000. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002.

Cotran, Eugene and Adel Omar Sherif, eds.Democracy: the Rule of Law and Islam. London: Kluwer Law International, 1999.

Cotran, Eugene and Mai Yamani, eds.The Rule of Law in the Middle East and Islamic World: Human Rights and the Judicial Process. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000.

Coulson, Noel J.Conflicts and Tensions in Islamic Jurisprudence. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Coulson, Noel J.A History of Islamic Law. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1964.

Coulson, Noel J.Succession in the Muslim Family. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1971.

Crone, Patricia.Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law: The Origins of the Islamic Patronate. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Dahlén, Ashk P.Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity: Legal Philosophy in Contemporary Iran. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Dutton, Yasin. The Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur’an, the Muwatta’ and Medinan ‘Amal. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1999.

Eisenman, Robert H.Islamic Law in Palestine and Israel: A History of the Survival of Tanzimat and Shari‘a in the British Mandate and the Jewish State. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978.

Esposito, John L. with Natana J. DeLong-Bas.Women in Muslim Family Law . Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2nd ed., 2002.

Fareed, Muneer Goolam.Legal Reform in the Muslim World: The Anatomy of a Scholarly Dispute in the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries on the Usage of Ijtihād as a Legal Tool. Bethesda, MD: Austin & Winfield, 1996.

Ferrari, Silvio and Anthony Bradney, eds.Islam and European Legal Systems. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.

Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn.Islamic Law and Society in the Sudan. London: Frank Cass & Co., 1987.

Forte, David F.Studies in Islamic Law. Bethesda, MD: Austin & Winfield, 1999.

Gerber, Haim.Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999.

Gerber, Haim.State, Society, and Law in Islam: Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Gleave, Robert.Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shī‘ī Jurisprudence. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000.

Gleave, Robert and Eugenia Kermeli, eds.Islamic Law: Theory and Practice. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001.

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and Barbara Freyer Stowasser, eds.Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2004.

Haeri, Shahla.Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi‘i Iran. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1989.

Haleem, M. Abdel, et al., eds.Criminal Justice in Islam: Judicial Procedure in the Sharī‘ah. London: I.B. Tauris, 2003.

Hallaq, Wael B.Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Hallaq, Wael B.A History of Islamic Legal Theories: an introduction to Sunnī usūl al-fiqh.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Hallaq, Wael B.Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1995.

Hallaq, Wael B., ed.The Formation of Islamic Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Haleem, M. Abdel, Adel Omar Sharif and Ian Edge, eds.Criminal Justice in Islam: Judicial Procedure in the Shari‘ah. London: I.B. Tauris, 2003.

Heer, Nicholas L., ed. Islamic Law and Jurisprudence: Studies in Honor of Farhat J. Ziadeh. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1990.

Hooker, Michael B.Islamic Law in Southeast Asia. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press,  1991.

Ibrahim, Ezzedin and Denys Johnson-Davies, trans.An-Nawawi’s Forty Hadith. Cambridge, UK: The Islamic Texts Society, 1997.

Ibrahim, Ezzedin and Denys Johnson-Davies, trans.Forty Hadith Qudsi . Cambridge, UK: The Islamic Texts Society, 1997.

Imber, Colin.Ebu’s-Su‘d: The Islamic Legal Tradition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Johansen, Baber.Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in Muslim Fiqh. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999.

Johansen, Baber.The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent: The Peasants’ Loss of Property Rights as Interpreted in the Hanafite Legal Literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods. London: Croom Helm, 1988.

Juynboll, G.H.A. Muslim Tradition: Studies in Chronology, Provenance and Authorship of Early Hadīth. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Kamali, Mohammad Hashim.Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence . Cambridge, UK: The Islamic Texts Society, revised ed., 2000.

Kelsay, John.War and the Imperatives of Justice in Islamic Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Khadduri, Majid.Al-Shāfi‘ī’s Risāla: Treatise on the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence.  Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 1999.

Khadduri, Majid.The Islamic Conception of Justice. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.

Khadduri, Majid.War and Peace in the Law of Islam. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955.

Khadduri, Majid, trans.The Islamic Law of Nations: Shaybānī’s Siyar. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Khare, R.S., ed.Perspectives on Islamic Law, Justice, and Society. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Kusha, Hamid Rez.The Sacred Law of Islam: A Case Study of Women’s Treatment in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Criminal Justice System. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.

Lindholm, Tore and Kari Vogt, eds. Islamic Law Reform and Human Rights: Challenges and Rejoinders. Copenhagen: Nordic Human Rights Publications, 1993.

Makdisi, George.Religion, Law and Learning in Classical Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1991.

Mallat, Chibli.The Renewal of Islamic Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Masud, Muhammad Khalid, Brinkley Messick and David S. Powers, eds.Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and their Fatwas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Mehdi, Rubya.The Islamization of the Law in Pakistan. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1994.

Melchert, Christopher.The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997.

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba.Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law —Iran and Morocco Compared. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001.

Moors, Annelies.Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences, 1920-1990. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Motzki, Harald.The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001.

Omran, Abdel Rahim, ed.Family Planning in the Legacy of Islam. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Peletz, Michael G.Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Peters, Rudolph.Islamic Criminal Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Peters, Rudolph.Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam: A Reader. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1996.

Powers, David S.Studies in Qur’an and Hadīth: The Formation of the Law of Inheritance. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986.

Rosen, Lawrence.The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Rosen, Lawrence.The Justice of Islam: Comparative Perspectives on Islamic Law and Society. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Sachedina, Abdulaziz Abdulhussein.The Just Ruler in Shi‛ite Islam: The Comprehensive Authority of the Jurist in Imamite Jurisprudence. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998.

as-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir (Roy Mottahedeh, trans.).Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2003.

Saeed, Abdullah.Islamic Banking and Interest: A Study of the Prohibition of Ribā and Its Contemporary Interpretation. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2nd ed., 1997.

Saeed, Abdullah and Hassan Saeed.Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Schacht, Joseph.An Introduction to Islamic Law. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1984 (reprint ed., first published, 1964).

Schacht, Joseph.The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1950.

Schirazi, Asghar.The Constitution of Iran: Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic. London: I.B. Tauris, 1998.

Serajuddin, Alamgir Muhammad.Sharī‘a Law and Society: Tradition and Change in South Asia. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Serjeant, R.B.Customary and Shari‘ah Law in Arabian Society. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1991.

Shaham, Ron.Family and the Courts in Modern Egypt: A Study Based on Decisions by the Sharī‘a Courts, 1900-1955. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997.

Siddīqī, Muhammad Zubayr.Hadīth Literature: Its Origin, Development & Special Features. Cambridge, UK: The Islamic Texts Society, 1993.

Sonbol, Amira El-Azhary.Women of Jordan: Islam, Labor and the Law. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003.

Sonbol, Amira El-Azhary, ed.Women, The Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Starr, June.Law as Metaphor: From Islamic Courts to the Palace of Justice. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Stewart, Devon J.Islamic Legal Orthodoxy: Twelver Shiite Responses to the Sunni Legal System. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1998.

Tucker, Judith E. In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.

Vogel, Frank E.Islamic Law and Legal Systems: Studies of Saudi Arabia. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000.

Vogel, Frank E. and Samuel L. Hayes.Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk, and Return. TheHague: Kluwer Law Int’l., 1998.

Weiss, Anita M.Islamic Reassertion in Pakistan: The Application of Islamic Laws in a Modern State. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986.

Weiss, Bernard G. The Search for God’s Law: Islamic Jurisprudence in the Writings of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1992.

Weiss, Bernard G.The Spirit of Islamic Law. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998.

Weiss, Bernard G., ed.Studies in Islamic Legal Theory. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002.

Welchman, Lynn.Beyond the Code: Muslim Family Law and the Shari‘a Judiciary in the Palestinian West Bank. The Hague: Kluwer Law Int’l., 2000.

Zubaida, Sami. Law and Power in the Islamic World. London; I.B. Tauris, 2003.