Library of Islamic Law

• Contracts in Islamic Law

• Author: Hussein Hassan
• 18 Dec 2011
• Hardback
• Price: £45.00

The book offers an invaluable resource to academics and researchers with a specific interest in Islamic law, to postgraduate students and final year students of law, and to scholars whose main focus is Anglo-American contract law but who are interested in comparative law/theory.

• Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage and Women in the Muslim World

• Edited by: Maaike Voorhoeve
• 30 Mar 2012
• Hardback
• Price: £59.50

Using a range of contemporary examples, from polygamy to informal marriage (zawaj 'urfi), and from divorce with mutual agreement (khul') to judicial divorce (tatliq), this volume explores the impact of Islamic law on individuals, families and society alike from Morocco to Egypt and from Syria to Iran.

• Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Process

• Edited by: Lena Larsen, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Christian Moe, Kari Vogt
• 28 Feb 2013
• Hardback
• Price: £30.00

• Narratives of Truth in Islamic Law

• Edited by: Baudouin Dupret, Barbara Drieskens, Annelies Moors
• 28 Nov 2007
• Hardback
• Price: £65.00

Addresses the issue of truth in law, within the context of Muslim societies. The truth, in legal terms, is the version of 'what happened', which carries most authority. This book looks at how this narrative is constructed in Muslim societies, and which truths are privileged over others in constructing it.

• Women Under Islam: Gender Justice and the Politics of Islamic Law

• Author: Christina Jones-Pauly | With: Abir Dajani Tuqan
• 30 Apr 2011
• Hardback
• Price: £59.50

Islamic law is often misrepresented as a single monolithic concept, rather than a collection of different interpretations and practices. This book explores what conditions sustain the most liberal interpretation of Islamic law on gender issues. It examines the various interpretations, histories and practices of Islamic law in different countries.