This Week's Suggested Book from the Ashbrook Center (Monday, October 15, 2001)
 | | Studies in Islamic Law: Classical and Contemporary Application
by David F. Forte |
Austin & Winfield 280 pages, January 1999 Hardcover, 75 ISBN: 1572921285
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the Ashbrook Center.
Professor Forte (of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law) is an acknowledged scholar in Islamic law. In this new work the author compares, contrasts and discusses civil and criminal law as well as issues of modernization in Shar'ia applications, law and politics, Joseph Schacht and Islamic law, radicalism and human rights.
Part I: Islamic Law and the Political Order
- The Tent
- Law and Politics
Part II: The Shari'a—Classical Applications
- Joseph Schacht and the Sunna
- Crimes
- Theft and Punishment
- Lost, Strayed, or Stolen—Chattel Recovery Under the Shari'a
Part III: The Shari'a—Contemporary Problems
- Apostasy and Blasphemy in Pakistan
- Islamic Law in American Courts
Part IV: The Shari'a—Radicalism and Reform
- Islam's Past, Islam's Future
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