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9780226323206 | 1 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 31, 2016), cover price $115.00

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9780226323343 | 1 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 31, 2016), cover price $37.50

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9781107041486 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 21, 2013, cover price $90.00

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9781107546073 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 30, 2015, cover price $32.99

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9789004277434 | Brill Academic Pub, December 23, 2014, cover price $194.00

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Product Description: This innovative and important book applies classical Sunni Muslim legal and religious doctrine to contemporary issues surrounding armed conflict. In doing so it shows that the shari'a and Islamic law are not only compatible with contemporary international human rights law and international humanitarian law norms, but are appropriate for use in Muslim societies...read more

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9781107040687 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 21, 2013, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This innovative and important book applies classical Sunni Muslim legal and religious doctrine to contemporary issues surrounding armed conflict.

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9781107684171 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 21, 2013, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This innovative and important book applies classical Sunni Muslim legal and religious doctrine to contemporary issues surrounding armed conflict.

By Oussama Arabi (editor), David S. Powers (editor) and Susan A. Spectorsky (editor)

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9789004254527 | Brill Academic Pub, September 25, 2013, cover price $252.00

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Product Description: Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marwānid period (64/684--132/750), focusing on religious scholars who supported the Umayyads. Their scholarly network extended across several generations and significantly influenced the development of the Islamic faith...read more

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9780415844970 | Routledge, September 10, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marwānid period (64/684--132/750), focusing on religious scholars who supported the Umayyads.

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Product Description: Since the early 1930s, researchers have shed light on the literary production of the Ismailis. The cataloguing of these works has been carried out by Ivanow, Fyzee, Goriawala, Poonawala, Gacek, Cortese and de Blois. Many works attributed to Ismaili scholars, however, are still unavailable, either because they remain hidden in private collections, or because they have not survived...read more

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9781780761299 | Bilingual edition (Tauris Academic Studies, March 19, 2013), cover price $58.00 | About this edition: Since the early 1930s, researchers have shed light on the literary production of the Ismailis.

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Product Description: Ever since 9/11, fears about the shari‘a―Islamic law―have been spreading. A word that originally conveyed nothing more sinister than a direct path to water has become associated not with salvation but with brutality and compulsion...read more

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9780374168728 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 10, 2012, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Some fourteen hundred years after the Prophet Muhammad first articulated God's law-the shari'a-its earthly interpreters are still arguing about what it means.

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9780374533731 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 9, 2013, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Ever since 9/11, fears about the shari‘a―Islamic law―have been spreading.

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9781412818551 | Aldine De Gruyter, March 23, 2011, cover price $42.95

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9780521861465 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2009), cover price $105.00

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9780521678735 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 10, 2009), cover price $39.99

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9780521861472 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 27, 2009), cover price $160.00

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9780521678742 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 27, 2009), cover price $74.99

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Originally published: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. xii, 386 pp. One of the best general introductions to Islamic lawDespite its age this is still one of the best general introductions to Islamiclaw. It remains a standard work in scholarly bibliographies. Offeringboth a history and a critical analysis, this book is enriched by a 66-pageappendix containing complete translations of primary texts.

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9781443730037 | Lightning Source Inc, November 30, 2008, cover price $43.95
9781436537797 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2008, cover price $49.95
9781584778585 | Lawbook Exchange Ltd, February 28, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Originally published: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903.

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9781409712480 | Read Books, May 30, 2008, cover price $31.99 | About this edition: The Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory was originally published in 1903.
9780548747810 | Kessinger Pub Co, November 30, 2007, cover price $34.95
9781406762556 | Macdonald Pr, March 30, 2007, cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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9780874805512 | Univ of Utah Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $40.00

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9780874809107 | Univ of Utah Pr, March 22, 2007, cover price $25.00

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'This volume provides assessment of sharia's achievements, shortcomings and future prospects. The Sharia is discussed with respect to Ottoman law, puritanism and jihad. The sharia's relevance to today's events is explored. Among items provided in appendices are a commentary on a Western translation of the concept of jihad and an analysis of the sharia in 29 selected countries'--Provided by publisher.

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9780786429219 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 22, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 'This volume provides assessment of sharia's achievements, shortcomings and future prospects.

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Product Description: This collective volume deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: shara, custom, and statute. Some chapters focus on one of these components, other discuss the interplay between two or even all three of them.
By Ron Shaham (editor)

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9789004154537 | Brill Academic Pub, December 30, 2006, cover price $161.00 | About this edition: This collective volume deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: shara, custom, and statute.

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9780195223972 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 9, 2005, cover price $75.00

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9780195223989 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 5, 2006, cover price $30.00
9781850658061 | Gardners Books, September 1, 2005, cover price $29.75

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Product Description: The Hanafi school of law is one of the oldest legal schools of Islam, coming into existence in the eighth century in Iraq, and surviving up to the present. So closely is the early development of the Hanafi school interwoven with non-legal spheres, such as the political, social, and theological, that the study of it is essential to a proper understanding of medieval Islamic history...read more

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9780674014565 | Harvard Univ Pr, July 30, 2004, cover price $36.50 | About this edition: The Hanafi school of law is one of the oldest legal schools of Islam, coming into existence in the eighth century in Iraq, and surviving up to the present.

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Product Description: The fourteen studies included in this volume have been chosen to serve several purposes simultaneously. At a basic level, they aim to provide a general - if not wholly systematic - coverage of the emergence and evolution of law during the first three and a half centuries of Islam...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Wael B. Hallaq (editor)

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9780860787143 | Variorum, January 1, 2004, cover price $300.00 | About this edition: The fourteen studies included in this volume have been chosen to serve several purposes simultaneously.

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Product Description: Gideon Libson's highly original work on custom is the first attempt to present a comprehensive comparative study of Jewish-Islamic law on a particular topic during the early Middle Ages. His in-depth study of Islamic law—its sources, legal schools, and extensive legal literature—together with his expertise in the wide range of geonic and rabbinic literature enable him to determine the influence of Muslim practice on geonic custom...read more

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9780674011069 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 30, 2003, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Gideon Libson's highly original work on custom is the first attempt to present a comprehensive comparative study of Jewish-Islamic law on a particular topic during the early Middle Ages.

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