Oxford handbook of Islamic law

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islamic Legal Studies: A Critical Historiography / Ayesha S. Chaudhry Ph.D. -- The Mazalim in Historiography / Mathieu Tillier -- Origins of and Influences on Islamic law / Benjamin Jokisch -- The Classical Period: Scripture, Origins, and Early Development / Mariam Sheibani, Amir Toft, Ahmed El Shamsy -- The Age of Development and Continuity, 12th-15th Centuries CE / Marion Katz -- Law in the Ottoman Empire / Haim Gerber -- A Historiography of Islamic Family Law / Lynn Welchman -- Islamic Law and Finance / Anver M. Emon -- Islamic Law and Human Rights / Shannon Dunn -- Islamic Law and Constitutions / Nathan J. Brown, Mara Revkin -- The Historiography of Sunni Usul al-Fiqh / Youcef Soufi -- Imām�i Sh�iʿ�i Legal theory from its origins to the early 20th century / Robert Gleave -- Ijmaʿ / Mairaj Syed -- Custom in the Islamic Legal Tradition / Ayman Shabana -- Ijtihad / Anver M. Emon -- Fiqh / Anver M. Emon -- Islamic Law in South Asia: A Testament to Diversity / Jeff Redding -- Islamic Law and Society in Southeast Asia / Melissa Crouch -- Islamic law in Post-revolutionary Iran / Antonia Fraser Fujinaga -- The Turkish Republic / Ruth A. Miller -- The Incorporation of Shariʿa in North America: Enforcing the Mahr to Combat Women's Poverty Post-Relationship Dissolution / Natasha Bakht -- Islamic law in Western Europe / Mathias Rohe -- Shari'a in Australia / Abdullah Saeed -- Anthropology and Islamic Law / John R. Bowen -- Falsafa and Law / Andrew March -- Islamic Law and Theology / Rumee Ahmed -- Legislation as an Instrument of Islamic Law / Leonard Wood -- Animals / Kristen Stilt -- Delivering Justice: the monarch's ʿurf�i Courts and the shar�iʿa in Safavid Iran / Rula Jurdi Abisaab -- A Historiography of Islamic Law in the Mughal Empire / M. Reza Pirbhai -- The Historiography of Islamic Law During the Mamluk Sultanate / Matthew B. Ingalls -- Anglo-Muhammadan Law / Syed Adnan Hussain -- Islamic Law and Gender / Saadia Yacoob -- al-Qaḍi / Mohammad Fadel -- Hisba and Muhtasib / Kristen Stilt, M. Safa Sara�coğlu.

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law offers a historiographic window into the scholarly treatment of a wide range of topics in the field of Islamic legal studies. Each essay, authored by an expert in the field, situates its subject in relation to historical academic scholarship. The historiographic feature of the volume is deliberate, to appreciate the contested nature of key concepts and topics in Islamic law without taking any particular account for granted. The essays both describe and reflect on scholarly debates, and gesture to future areas of fruitful research.