Description: Understanding Sharia Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Islamic Law in a Globalised World Author(s): Raficq S. Abdulla, Mohamed M. Keshavjee Format: Hardback Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom Imprint: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies ISBN-13: 9781788313193, 978-1788313193 Synopsis Sharia has been a source of misunderstanding and misconception in both the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds. Understanding Sharia: Islamic Law in a Globalised World sets out to explore the reality of sharia, contextualising its development in the early centuries of Islam and showing how it evolved in line with historical and social circumstances. The authors, Raficq S. Abdulla and Mohamed M. Keshavjee, both British-trained lawyers, argue that sharia and the positive law flowing from it, known as fiqh, have never been an exclusive legal system or a fixed set of beliefs. In addition to tracing the history of sharia, the book offers a critique concerning its status today. Sharia is examined with regard to particular issues that are of paramount importance in the contemporary world, such as human rights; criminal penalties, including those dealing with apostasy, blasphemy and adultery, commercial transactions, and bio-medical ethics, amongst other subjects. The authors show that sharia is a legal system underpinned by ethical principles that are open to change in different circumstances and contexts, notwithstanding the claims for `transcendental permanence' made by Islamists. This book encourages new thinking about the history of sharia and its role in the modern world.
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Book Title: Understanding Sharia
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Understanding Sharia: Islamic Law in a Globalised World
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Law, Islamic Studies
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Weight: 562 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Raficq S. Abdulla, Mohamed M. Keshavjee
Item Width: 138 mm
Format: Hardcover
