Islamic Law and Transnational Diplomatic Law

A Quest for Complementarity in Divergent Legal Theories

This book, in its effort to formulate compatibility between Islamic law and the principles of international diplomatic law, argues that the need to harmonize the two legal systems and have a thorough cross-cultural understanding amongst nations generally with a view to enhancing unfettered diplomatic cooperation should be of paramount priority.

'Azzam vehemently criticized this narration, “which people quote on the basis that
it is a hadith, is in fact a false, fabricated hadith that has no basis. It is only a
saying of Ibrahim Ibn Abi 'Abalah, one of the Successors, and it contradicts
textual evidence and reality.” He also quoted Ibn Taymiyyah as saying that “[t]his
hadith has no sources and nobody whomsoever in the field of Islamic knowledge
has narrated it.” See A. 'Azzam, Ilhaq bil Qalifah—Join the Caravan (1988), pp.
26–27 ...