This study of Islamic law in the final phase of its pre-modern period of existence is based mainly on the fatwa collections of two prominent Arab jurists and one Turkish jurist from this period. The book re-examines the basic methodological structure of Islamic law (including its complex relations with the state) and poses the question as to whether Islamic law became increasingly closed and rigid. It was found that no such closure ever took place. The book will be of importance to those interested in Islamic law, as well as to those interested in Islamic thought in general and the relations between society and the state. Readership: All those interested in Islamic law, the Middle East under the Ottomans, Islam and civil society, Islam and the state.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION This study was undertaken in an attempt to build
a general picture of Islamic law in the last phase of its existence as part of
classical Islam properly speaking (the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries). This
was done on the basis of the work of three major muftis who lived in this period —
Ebu Suud Efendi, the sixteenth-century Ottoman §eyhiilislam; the seventeenth-
century Palestinian mufti Khayr al-DTn al-RamlT; and the early nineteenth-
century ...
Reconstructing the Legal Development, 7Th-9Th Centuries
This study, relied mainly on the legal texts and hadith collections dating from the eighth and ninth centuries, provides an illuminating account of how rules regulating various transactions were formed, developped and synthesized in the formative period of Islamic law.
This study, relied mainly on the legal texts and hadith collections dating from the eighth and ninth centuries, provides an illuminating account of how rules regulating various transactions were formed, developped and synthesized in the ...
An Analysis of Derivatives Instruments in Commodity Markets
This study addresses the derivatives instruments in Islamic finance and highlights their benefits and legal aspects. It also discusses the forward, futures and options contracts in commodity markets. Arguments both in favour of and against these instruments are addressed and several alternatives are examined as well.
Azzam added that we fully accept and rely on the first part of this principle, but
concerning its second part, he asserted that the prohibitive evidence pertaining to
civil and commercial transactions must not be anything less than decisive. This is
because the fundamental permissibility of such transactions is based on decisive
evidence, that is, the principle of ibāhah, and. * Al-Mawsu'ah al-Ilmiyyah wa al-'
Amaliyyah li al-Bunuk al-Islāmiyyah, Cairo, International Association of Islamic ...
Afghanistan emerged as a nation-state after Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan consolidated the central authority in its most formative period of its history in the late nineteenth century. All this at a time when the two expanding Russian and British empires were approaching Afghanistan in what is known as the Great Game for mastery over the Central Asian states.
Sardar Mohammad Ayyub Khan at Herat After having spent four years and four
months in Mashhad, in Persia, where he "cultivated a great taste for politics,
history and poetry" Sardar Mohammad Ayyub Khan (b. 1858) returned to Herat
with the permission of the shah of Persia, and in possession of seventy- five-
thousand Persian qirans (roughly half of rupees). He had gone to Mashhad after
his father, Amir Sher cAli Khan, had imprisoned his full-brother, Sardar
Mohammad Ya'qub ...
The Authobiography of an Egyptian Scholar, Writer and Cultural Leader
Ahmad Amin (1886-1954) was one of that remarkable cohort of Egyptian intellectuals all born a few years either side of 1890, a group whose prolific literary output largely defined and expressed the dominant liberal trend in Egyptian intellectual and cultural life in the period of the parliamentary monarchy from the 1920s through the 1940s. The autobiographical statements of two members of this group, Salamah Musa and Taha Husayn, have previously been made available in English translations. Now the reader unfamiliar with Arabic has an English version of Amin's autobiography to complement those of Musa and Husayn and to illuminate the cultural trends of a most important period of modern Egyptian and Arab history. -- from http://www.jstor.org (Dec. 10, 2013).
