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  • Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning

    Encountering Our Legal Other

    by Anver Emon ...
    By pairing a scholar of Islamic law with a scholar of Jewish law, a unique dynamic is created, and new perspectives are made possible. These new perspectives not only enable an understanding of the other’s legal tradition, but most saliently, they offer new insights into one’s own legal tradition, shedding light on what had previously been assumed to be outside the scope of analytic vision.In the ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Shari'a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics

    Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the place of sharia law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing together leading scholars of Islamic politics, ethics, and law, this book examines the varied meanings and uses of Islamic law, so as to assess the prospects for democratic, plural, and gender-equitable ... Read more

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  • Jurisdictional Exceptionalisms

    Islamic Law, International Law and Parental Child Abduction

    Series series Law in Context
    Jurisdictional Exceptionalisms examines the legal issues associated with a parent's forced removal of their children to reside in another country following relationship dissolution or divorce. Through an analysis of Public and Private International Laws, and Islamic law - historical and as implemented in contemporary Muslim Family Law States - the authors uncover distinct legal lexicons that ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law

    by Anver M. Emon ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary study of Islamic law and a critical analysis of its deficiencies. Written by outstanding senior and emerging scholars in their fields, it offers an innovative historiographical examination of the field of Islamic law and an ideal introduction to key personalities and concepts. While capturing the state of contemporary Islamic legal ... Read more

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  • Natural Law

    A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue

    This book is an examination of natural law doctrine, rooted in the classical writings of our respective three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Each of the authors provides an extensive essay reflecting on natural law doctrine in his tradition. Each of the authors also provides a thoughtful response to the essays of the other two authors. Readers will gain a sense for how natural law (or ... Read more

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  • Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law

    Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law

    by Anver M. Emon ...
    Series series Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
    The question of tolerance and Islam is not a new one. Polemicists are certain that Islam is not a tolerant religion. As evidence they point to the rules governing the treatment of non-Muslim permanent residents in Muslim lands, namely the dhimmi rules that are at the center of this study. These rules, when read in isolation, are certainly discriminatory in nature. They legitimate discriminatory ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Systemic Islamophobia in Canada

    A Research Agenda

    Edited by Anver Emon ...
    Series series Dimensions: Islam, Muslims, and Critical Thought
    Systemic Islamophobia in Canadapresents critical perspectives on systemic Islamophobia in Canadian politics, law, and society, and maps areas for future research and inquiry. The authors consist of both scholars and professionals who encounter in the ordinary course of their work the – sometimes banal, sometimes surprising – operation of systemic Islamophobia. Centring the lived realities of ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Objectives of Islamic Law

    The Promises and Challenges of the Maqasid al-Shari'a

    Scholars, thinkers, and activists around the world are paying increasing attention to a legal reform method that promises to revolutionize the way people think about Islamic law. Known as “The Objectives of the Shari‘a” (maqa?id al-shari‘a), the theory offers a way to derive and apply new Islamic laws using an ancient methodology. The theory identifies core objectives that underlie Islamic law, ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law

    The relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law has been the subject of considerable, and heated, debate in recent years. The usual starting point has been to test one system by the standards of the other, asking is Islamic law 'compatible' with international human rights standards, or vice versa. This approach quickly ends in acrimony and accusations of misunderstanding. ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Reason, Revelation and Law in Islamic and Western Theory and History

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book engages the diverse meanings and interpretations of Islamic and Western law which have affected people and societies across the globe, past and present, in correlation to the epistemological groundings of those meanings and interpretations. The volume takes a distinctively comparative approach, advancing dialogue on crucial transnational and global debates over the history of Western and ... Read more

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