4-Volume Set

Islamic Law
CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN ISLAMIC STUDIES
Edited and with a new introduction by Gavin Picken, American
University of Sharjah, UAE

Islamic law is a legal tradition entrenched within a religious context; it is one

of the most intriguing and fascinating areas of Islamic Studies. Many
practitioners of Islam believe that their lives should be governed by a
divinely revealed and sanctioned form of law that affects every aspect of their
daily routines. Thus, whether it be a conventional religious act such as
prayer, a customary practice such as marriage, or commercial activities such
as trade, all these activities are determined by their legal validity within the
Islamic law.
Islamic law has developed over many centuries of juristic effort into a subtle,
complex, and highly developed reality. Thus, Islamic law, like any other, has
its sources (al-masadir); it also has its guiding principles (al-usul) that
dictate the nature of its evidence (al-adilla); it equally employs the use of
legal maxims (al-qawaid) and utilizes a number of underlying objectives
(al-maqasid) to underpin the structure of its legal theory.
Volume I of this new Routledge collection brings together the best
scholarship to detail the origins and sources of Islamic law. The materials in
Volume II, meanwhile, examine the genesis of schools of law, their
utilization of specific juristic methodologies, and their development of legal
theory. Volume III focuses on the consolidation and stagnation of Islamic
law in the medieval period, since although the development of the schools
and a number of competing legal theories played a huge role in the
codification of Islamic law, at the same time the competitive nature of such
methodologies led to divisiveness because of strict adherence to a specific
school. The final volume in the collection examines Islamic law today, and
the challenges of living in a modern, technologically advanced world.
Supplemented with a full index, Islamic Law includes a comprehensive
introduction newly written by the editor which places the collected material
in its historical and intellectual context. It is certain to be valued as a vital
research resource.

Routledge
November 2009
234x156: 1,600pp
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Routledge Major Works

Islamic Law CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN ISLAMIC STUDIES
VOLUME I
Origins and Sources
The Primacy of Revelation
1. Zafar Ishaq Ansari, The Contribution of the Quran and the Prophet
to the Development of Islamic Fiqh, Journal of Islamic Studies, 1992, 3,
2, 14171.
2. Ahmed Souaiaia, On the Sources of Islamic Law and Practices, Journal
of Law and Religion, 20045, 20, 1, 12347.
The Quran
3. Roger Arnaldez, La place du Coran dans les usul al-fiqh daprs le
Muhalla dIbn Hazm, Studia Islamica, 1970, 32, 2130. al-Shafii (d. 204/820)
4. John Burton, The Exegesis of Q. 2:106 and the Islamic Theories of
Naskh: Ma Nansakh Min Aya Aw Nansaha Nati Bi Khairin Minha Aw
Mithliha, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1985,
48, 3, 45269.
5. Christopher Melchert, Ahmad ibn Hanbal and the Quran, Journal of
Quranic Studies, 2004, 6, ii, 2234.
Hadith and Sunna
6. Wael B. Hallaq, The Authenticity of Prophetic Hadith: A Pseudo-
Problem, Studia Islamica, 1999, 89, 7590.
7. Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad, Twelve Sii Hadit from Tradition to
Contemporary Evaluations, Oriente Moderno, 2002, 82, i, 12545.
8. Yasin Dutton, An Innovation from the Time of the Bani Hashim:
Some Reflections on the Taslim at the End of the Prayer, Journal of
Islamic Studies, 2005, 16, ii, 14776.
9. Scott C. Lucas, Divorce, Hadith-Scholar Style: From al-Darimi to al-
Tirmidhi, Journal of Islamic Studies, 2008, 19, 3, 32568.
Ijmfi
10. Wael Hallaq, On the Authoritativeness of Sunni Consensus,
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1986, 18, 4, 42754.
Qiys
11. Nabil Shehaby, Illa and Qiyas in Early Islamic Legal Theory, Journal of
the American Oriental Society, 1982, 102, 1, 2746.
Subsidiary Sources of Law
12. Ayman Shabana, Urf and Adah with the Framework of al-Shatibis
Legal Methodology, UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law,
20067, 6, 1, 4765.
13. John Makdisi, A Reality Check on Istihsan as a Method of Islamic
Legal Reasoning, UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law,
20023, 2, 1, 99127.
Ijtihd
14. Hamid Algar, Q. 21: 789: A Quranic Basis for Ijtihad?, Journal of
Quranic Studies, 2002, 4, ii, 122.
15. ric Chaumont, La problmatique classique de lIjtihd et la question
de lIjtihd du prophte: Ijtihd, Wahy et Isma, Studia Islamica,
1992, 75, 10539.
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VOLUME II
The Genesis of Legal Theory and the
Schools of Law
Malik B. Anas (d. 179/795) and the Muwatta
16. Yasin Dutton, Juridical Practice and Madinan Amal: Qada in the
Muwatta of Malik, Journal of Islamic Studies, 1999, 10, i, 121.
17. Harald Motzki, The Prophet and the Cat: On Dating Maliks Muwatta
and the Legal Traditions, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 1998,
22, 1883.
18. Wael Hallaq, On Dating Maliks Muwatta, UCLA Journal of Islamic and
Near Eastern Law, 2001, 2, 1, 4765.
19. Wael Hallaq, Was al-Shafii the Master Architect of Islamic
Jurisprudence?, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1993, 25, 4,
587605.
20. Sherman Jackson, Setting the Record Straight: Ibn al-Labbids
Refutation of al-Shafii, Journal of Islamic Studies, 2000, 11, 2, 12146.
21. Joseph Lowry, Ibn Qutayba: The Earliest Witness to al-Shafii and his
Legal Doctrines, in James Montgomery (ed.), Orientalia Lovaniensia
Analecta (Peeters, 2004), pp. 30319.
Contemporaneous Juristic Activity
22. Harold Motzki, Der Fiqh des Zuhri, Der Islam, 1991, 68, 144.
23. Jonathan E. Brockopp, Early Islamic Jurisprudence in Egypt: Two
Scholars and their Mukhtasars, International Journal of Middle East
Studies, 1998, 30, 2, 16782.
24. Robert Gleave, Between Hadith and Fiqh: The Canonical Imami
Collections of Akhbar, Islamic Law and Society, 2001, 8, iii, 35082.
25. Christopher Melchert, Traditionist Jurisprudents and the Framing of
Islamic Law, Islamic Law and Society, 2001, 8, iii, 383406.
26. Devin J. Stewart, Muhammad b. Jarir al-Tabaris al-Bayan an Usul Al-
Fiqh in Ninth-Century Baghdad, in James Montgomery (ed.),
Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta (Peeters, 2004), pp. 32149.
Evolution of the Schools
27. Christopher Melchert, How Hanafism Came to Originate in Kufa and
Traditionalism in Medina, Islamic Law and Society, 1999, 6, 3, 31847.
28. Nimrod Hurvitz, Schools of Law and Historical Context: Re-
examining the Formation of the Hanbali Madhhab, Islamic Law and
Society, 2000, 7, 1, 3764.
29. Wael Hallaq, From Regional Schools to Personal Schools of Law? A
Reevaluation, Islamic Law and Society, 2001, 8, 1, 126.
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Consolidation and Stagnation
Ijtihad and Taqlid
30. Wael Hallaq, Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed?, International Journal of
Middle East Studies, 1984, 16, 1, 341.
31. Norman Calder, Doubt and Prerogative: The Emergence of an Imami
Shii Theory of Ijtihad, Studia Islamica, 1989, 70, 5778.
32. Mohammad Fadel, The Social Logic of Taqlid and the Rise of the
Mukhtasar, Islamic Law and Society, 1996, 3, 2, 193233.
Muftis and Qadis
33. Wael Hallaq, Usul al-fiqh: Beyond Tradition, Journal of Islamic Studies,
1992, 3, 2, 172202.
34. Sherman Jackson, From Prophetic Actions to Constitutional Theory: A
Novel Chapter in Medieval Muslim Jurisprudence, International Journal
of Middle East Studies, 1993, 25, 1, 7190.
35. Sherman Jackson, The Primacy of Domestic Politics: Ibn bint al-Aazz
and the Establishment of Four Chief Judgeships in Mamluk Egypt,
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1995, 115, 1, 5265.
36. Wael Hallaq, The Qadis Diwan (Sijill) Before the Ottomans, Bulletin
of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1998, 61, 3, 41536.
37. Wael Hallaq, Qadis Communicating: Legal Change and the Law of
Documentary Evidence, Al-Qantara: Revista de Estudios Arabes, 1999,
20, ii, 43766.
38. Yahya J. Michot, Ibn Taymiyya on Astrology Annotated Translation of
Three Fatwas, Journal of Islamic Studies, 2000, 11, 2, 147208.
39. Christian Mller, Judging with Gods Law on Earth: Judicial Powers of
the Qadi al-Jamaa of Cordoba in the Fifth/Eleventh Century, Islamic
Law and Society, 2000, 7, 2, 15986.
40. Christian Lange, Hisba and the Problem of Overlapping Jurisdictions:
An Introduction to, and Translation of, Hisba diplomas in
Qalqashandis Subh al-Asha, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic
Review, 2006, 7, 85107.
Consolidation of the Schools
41. George Makdisi, The Significance of the Sunni Schools of Law in
Islamic Religious History, International Journal of Middle East Studies,
1979, 10, 1, 18.
42. George Makdisi, Tabaqat-Biography: Law and Orthodoxy in Classical
Islam, Islamic Studies, 1993, 32, 37196.
43. Stefan Leder, Charismatic Scripturalism: The Hanbali Maqdisis of
Damascus, Der Islam, 1997, 74, 279304.
44. John A. Nawas, The Emergence of Fiqh as a Distinct Discipline and
the Ethnic Identity of the Fuqaha in Early and Classical Islam, in S.
Leder et al. (eds.), Studies in Arabic and Islam: Proceedings of the 19th
Congress (Peeters, 2002), pp. 4919.
VOLUME IV
Islamic Law in the Modern World
Islamic Law and the State
45. Norman Calder, Accommodation and Revolution in Imami Shii
Jurisprudence: Khumayni and the Classical Tradition, Middle Eastern
Studies, 1982, 18, 1, 320.
46. Nathan J. Brown, Sharia and State in the Modern Muslim Middle
East, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1997, 29, 3, 35976.
47. Roxanne L. Euben, Comparative Political Theory: An Islamic
Fundamentalist Critique of Rationalism, The Journal of Politics, 1997,
59, 1, 2855.
48. Wael B. Hallaq, Juristic Authority vs. State Power: The Legal Crisis of
Modern Islam, Journal of Law and Religion, 20034, 19, ii, 24358.
The Reconstruction of Tradition
49. Oussama Arabi, Al-Shanhuris Reconstruction of the Islamic Law of
Contract Defects: Error and Real Intent, Journal of Islamic Studies,
1995, 6, 2, 15372.
50. Rudolph Peters, Islamic and Secular Criminal Law in Nineteenth-
Century Egypt: The Role and Function of the Qadi, Islamic Law and
Society, 1997, 4, 1, 7090.
51. Oussama Arabi, Contract Stipulations in Islamic Law: The Ottoman
Majalla and Ibn Taymiyya, International Journal of Middle East Studies,
1998, 30, 1, 2950.
52. Oussama Arabi, The Dawning of the Third Millennium on Sharia:
Egypts Law No. 1 of 2000, or Women May Divorce at Will, Arab Law
Quarterly, 1998, 16, 1, 221.
53. Ahmad Dallal, Appropriating the Past: Twentieth-Century
Reconstruction of Pre-Modern Islamic Thought, Islamic Law and
Society, 2000, 7, 3, 32558.
54. Robert Gleave, Modern Sii Discussions of Habar al-wahid: Sadr,
Humayni and Hui, Oriente Moderno, 2002, 82, i, 17994.
55. Sherman Jackson, Jihd and the Modern World, The Journal of Islamic
Law and Culture, 2002, 7, 1, 1-26.
56. Emad H. Khalil and Abdulkader Thomas, The Modern Debate Over
Riba in Egypt, in Abdulkader Thomas (ed.), Islamic Economics:
Understanding Riba (Routledge, 2006), pp. 6995.
57. Alexandre Caeiro, The Shifting Moral Universes of the Islamic
Tradition of Ifta: A Diachronic Study of Four Adab al-Fatwa Manuals,
Muslim World, 2006, 96, iv, 66185.
58. David L. Johnston, Maqasid al-sharia: Epistemology and
Hermeneutics of Muslim Theologies of Human Rights, Die Welt des
Islams, 2007, 47, ii, 14987.
The Study of Islamic Law in the West
59. Wael B. Hallaq, The Quest for Origins or Doctrine? Islamic Legal
Studies as Colonialist Discourse, UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near
Eastern Law, 20023, 2, i, 131.
60. Abdul Hakim I. Al-Matroudi, The Hanbali School of Law in the Light
of Contemporary Western Studies, Journal of Quranic Studies, 2006, 8,
2, 20360.
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