..., but cannot assist understandings of today’s slavery-related problems, particularly human trafficking, forced labor, and debt bondage. The chapter calls for a fresh realism concerning slavery’s relation to Islamic law. In the Indian Ocean World there were plural imperialisms, leading to plural conceptions...

... that the practical norms of Islamic law can be applied only through the actions of particular human institutions. Deference to authority taqlīd Independent reasoning ijtihād Substantive rules of law furūʿ al fiqh Theoretical jurisprudence uṣūl al fiqh Al Shāfiʿī Muḥammad b Idrīs Speculative theology kalām...

... Prohibitory command nahy Recommended al mandūb Consensus ijmāʾ Ritual Forbidden or prohibited al ḥarām or al maḥẓūr Islamic law sharīʿa Conditional oath al taʿlīq Divorce Legal causes sabab s asbāb pl Manumission Pilgrimage Vow al nadhr Lawgiver Master jurist mujtahid Follower of a master jurist...

... than stay in Islamic ones. The chapter also argues that Jews' and Muslims' movement across jurisdictional boundaries caused judicial officials from both communities to accommodate the realities of legal pluralism. Islamic law and Jewish law converged toward each other—Islamic law by accommodating...

... pluralism Britain ought to support, not whether to have pluralism at all. Bengal Burke Edmund jury trials Regulating Act 1773 Alam II Mughal emperor authoritarian colonialism civil law criminal law East India Company Hindus Islamic law moderates populists Reza Khan Muhammed taxation Clive...

... Charles Mani Lata Dalhousie Earl of James Broun Ramsay Sausse Matthew Cross examination Coleridge John Duke Poland Harry Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 Tichborne case Prevarication James Fitzjames Stephen Thomas Macaulay Islamic Law Madras Presidency Bengal Presidency in 1858...

...The author of this book has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In this book he argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—in its broad outlines—meets with wide acceptance among Muslims if their interpretation of Islamic law is correct. Under his theory...

...This book is the first and much-needed English translation of a thirteenth-century text that shaped the development of Islamic law in the late middle ages. Scholars of Islamic law can find few English language translations of foundational Islamic legal texts, particularly from the understudied...