Raficq S. Abdulla, Mohamed M. Keshavjee

Understanding Sharia (eBook, PDF)

Islamic Law in a Globalised World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies

Sharia has been a source of misunderstanding and misconception in both the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds. Understanding Sharia: Islamic Law in a Globalised World sets out to explore the reality of sharia, contextualising its development in the early centuries of Islam and showing how it evolved in line with historical and social circumstances. The authors, Raficq S. Abdulla and Mohamed M. Keshavjee, both British-trained lawyers, argue that sharia and the positive law flowing from it, known as fiqh, have never been an exclusive legal system or a fixed set of beliefs.
In addition to tracing the history of sharia, the book offers a critique concerning its status today. Sharia is examined with regard to particular issues that are of paramount importance in the contemporary world, such as human rights; criminal penalties, including those dealing with apostasy, blasphemy and adultery, commercial transactions, and bio-medical ethics, amongst other subjects. The authors show that sharia is a legal system underpinned by ethical principles that are open to change in different circumstances and contexts, notwithstanding the claims for `transcendental permanence' made by Islamists. This book encourages new thinking about the history of sharia and its role in the modern world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786734051
• Artikelnr.: 55112705

Autorenporträt

Raficq Abdulla is a lawyer, writer, public speaker and broadcaster. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Faculty of Business and Law, Kingston University, UK; and a founder member of the Advisory Panel of the UK's Muslim Law Shariah Council.