... compared to the West Mamluk Sultanate Mongols Obligation of Following the Straight Path The Ibn Taymiyya shariʿa Islamic law Abraham biblical figure community Muslim umma Damascus danger Ibn Isḥāq Ibn Luḥayy ʿAmr idolatry kaʿba Mecca as center of Islam monotheism opposition pagans power...

... ‘shariʿa-minded piety’ focused on ‘commanding the right and forbidding the wrong’. Peacock describes how the ambitions of religious scholars like the Syrian Qādirī preacher Muḥammad Shams al-Dīn intersected with early modern state-building in the Indian Ocean world. This chapter chronicles how...

... J shariʿa bay ʿa oath of allegiance Quraysh Qurashi tahrir process of drafting ordinances fasiq shawka military power amirate imara administrative manuals ra ʿiyya subjects umma community vizierate wizara wilayat senior functions military commanders umaraʾ umaraʾ military commanders...

... understand and act properly within it, will ensure their happiness in this world and the next. This requires reflecting on this order, discovering its secrets, and taking advantage of them in accordance with the requirements of shariʿa. Fate is a conscious submission to divine decrees...

...This chapter discusses the relation and differences between the legal concepts of shariʿa and fiqh and their implications for the reinterpretation and reform of specific legal rulings today by qualified American Muslim jurists and academic scholars through the process of ijtihad. It indicates some...

... composition using shariʿa-compliant bills and bonds. Islamic banks and finance Malaysia shariʿa law economic development Kuran Timur long divergence hypothesis Ebussuud Efendi Galata bankers sarrafs Ottoman Empire Suleiman sultan of Ottoman Empire British Empire Sultan of Johor Bank Negara...

... tariq al imama The Guiding Lamp to the Path of the Imamate anon prophethood nubuwwa shariʿa sultanate Artuqids Ayyubid period Cairo citadel Damascus fiqh jurisprudence Franks al Ihkam fi tamyiz al fatawa ʿan al ahkam wa tasarrufat al quadi wa al imam Book of Perfection in DistinguishingLegal...

... within the group’s hierarchy, eligibility for recognized ‘citizenship’, and entitlement to judicial leniency. Islamic State ISIS rebel governance terrorism judiciary policing shariʿa law slavery Iraq Syria At some point, the perception of time became arbitrary. […] Sometimes we...

...This book is a study of the Muslim world’s entanglement with colonial modernity. More specifically, it is an historical examination of the development of the long-standing, indigenous tradition of learning and praxis known as Islamic law (shariʿa, fiqh) as a result...

...On the surface, the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act of 1937 made “shariʿa” the basis for deciding all cases relating to Muslim personal law. It attempted to undo the damage caused by decades of Anglo-Indian precedent, to mitigate the effects of judges’ rote application of translated...

...The Muslim (Chapter 4) is legally available in so far as he conducts himself appropriately (whether in accordance with the shariʿa or ‘common sense’), a conduct expected of the judiciaries as well. Harmony (or, at least, lack of conflict) between the shariʿa and the secular positive law is sought...

...Pakistan is widely considered to be a “religious” society, with survey data demonstrating that a high percentage of people consider religion an important part of their lives and support the implementation of shariʿa law. How does this apparent religiosity translate into political attitudes...

... amirate imara constitution Ibn Jamaʿa Ibn Taymiyya imamate al Juwayni Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad Imam al Haramaya al Mawardi al Razi Najm al Din Daya shariʿa sultanate vizierate wizara Coulson Noel Fadel Mohammad H governance Kerr Malcolm Kitab al Ahkam al sultaniyya wa al wilayat al diniyya...

... in the shariʿa and Islamised ethical systems deriving from Graeco-Arabic philosophy. imamate Islamic political thought language Mamluk period Misbah al hidaya fi tariq al imama The Guiding Lamp to the Path of the Imamate anon rule of law Sufism administrative manuals al Badawi Ahmad Baybars I...

... Maronite Christianity Persian literature Yemen Caliphate Medieval kingship Pagan and Christian polities Religion and modernity Priesthood Ulama Muslim Jurisprudence Shariʿa and fiqh Religion and politics Sacred and positive law It is not known exactly when the term “secularism...

... legal tradition tradition legal Islamic law fiqh theodicy tradition legal theory Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi Salafism jihad Shariʿa fatwa The war today between the Muslims and the Americans is not a battle over petrol, not a battle over water, not a battle for a land or a sea, not a battle...