Amy Singer

Baber Johansen

Devin J. Stewart

Law and Society in Islam

This book, first published in 1988, argues that a close inspection of the development of Hanafite law in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods reveals changes in legal doctrine which were not restricted to civil transactions but also concerned the public law. It focuses in particular on the interrelated areas of property, rent and taxation of arable lands, arguing that changes in the relationship between tax and rent led to a redefinition of the concept of landed property, a concept at the very heart of the Islamic legal system. This title will be of particular interest to students of Islamic history.

The Peasants' Loss of Property Rights As Interpreted in the Hanafite Legal Literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods

The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent

A focus on the way in which Muslim scholars of the Hanafite school of Muslim law, from the 10th-12th centuries, adapted their legal norms to changing circumstances and distinguished between legal and ethical norms, religious and legal status, legal propositions and religious judgment. The introduction links this debate to the sociology of law and spells out the distinction between theology and law in Islam.

Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh

Contingency in a Sacred Law

Axel Havemann

islamwissenschaftliche Studien : Fritz Steppat zum fünfundsechzigsten Geburtstag

Gegenwart als Geschichte

Baber Johansen

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