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Islamic law --- History. --- Interpretation and construction --- History --- Islamic law - Interpretation and construction - History.

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Islamic law --- Interpretation and construction --- Qur'an --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History --- Interpretation and construction. --- Qurʼan --- History. --- Islamic law - Interpretation and construction

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This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law. Despite its contemporary popularity, that notion turns out to have been far outside the mainstream of Islamic law for most of its history. Instead of rejecting doubt, medieval Muslim scholars largely embraced it. In fact, they used doubt to enlarge their own power and to construct Islamic criminal law itself. Through examination of legal, historical, and theological sources, and a range of illustrative case studies, this book shows that Muslim jurists developed a highly sophisticated and regulated system for dealing with Islam's unique concept of doubt, which evolved from the seventh to the sixteenth century.

Criminal law (Islamic law) --- Belief and doubt --- Legal certainty --- Legal maxims (Islamic law) --- Islamic law --- Interpretation and construction --- History --- Belief and doubt. --- Legal certainty. --- HISTORY --- Islam. --- Strafrecht. --- Rechtsgrundsatz. --- Auslegung. --- Interpretation and construction. --- History. --- General. --- Criminal law (Islamic law) - Interpretation and construction --- Legal maxims (Islamic law) - History --- Islamic law - Interpretation and construction --- Uṣūl al-fiqh (Islamic law) --- Certainty of law --- Jurisprudence --- Law --- Conviction --- Doubt --- Consciousness --- Credulity --- Emotions --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Religion --- Will --- Agnosticism --- Rationalism --- Skepticism --- Uṣūl al-Fiqh

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This volume is a collection of studies devoted entirely to topics and issues in the field of Islamic legal theory and authored by 14 scholars known for their work in this field. The studies deal with such topics as early notions of charismatic authority.

Islamic law --- History --- Interpretation and construction --- Islamic law - Interpretation and construction - Congresses. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Canon Law --- Civil law (Islamic law) --- Law, Arab --- Law, Islamic --- Law in the Qurʼan --- Sharia (Islamic law) --- Shariʻah (Islamic law) --- Law, Oriental --- Law, Semitic --- DROIT MUSULMAN --- MELANGES

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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. By grounding contemporary post-conflict processes and procedures in classical Muslim legal and religious doctrine, it becomes more accessible to Muslim societies who are looking for appropriate legal mechanisms to deal with the aftermath of armed conflict. This book uniquely presents a critique of the violent practices of contemporary Muslims and Muslim clerics who support these practices. It rebuts Islamophobes in the West that discredit Islam on the basis of the abhorrent practices of some Muslims, and hopes to reduce tensions between Western and Islamic civilizations by enhancing common understanding of the issues.Uniquely brings a classical Sunni perspective to some of the most pressing contemporary issues of war and violence by a law professor whose legal training was in Muslim and non-Muslim statesBrings together the most current thinking on post-conflict justice with well-accepted principles and norms of shari'a and Islamic law in their application to contemporary conflicts and violence by Muslims whether against Muslims or non-MuslimsDiscusses the application of international human rights and international humanitarian law principles to Islamic law.

Islamic law --- Civil rights (Islamic law) --- Criminal justice, Administration of (Islamic law) --- Public law (Islamic law) --- History --- Interpretation and construction --- Islamic law - History --- Islamic law - Interpretation and construction - History --- History. --- Civil law (Islamic law) --- Law, Arab --- Law, Islamic --- Law in the Qurʼan --- Sharia (Islamic law) --- Shariʻah (Islamic law) --- Law, Oriental --- Law, Semitic