Books on Islamic law

Developing resources on Islamic law: bibliography and other useful information

This page includes details of books on Islamic law. The content is a section of the bibliography produced as part of the Developing an Islamic law curriculum project

• Abdelkader, D. (2000) Social Justice in Islam. Herndon, VA: IIIT.
• Abdul-Rauf, F. (2000) Islam: A Sacred Law, What Every Muslim Should Know About the Shari`ah. Qiblah Books (Threshold Books).
• Abu-Lughod, L. (ed.)(1998) Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Abdullah, U.Y. (1998) Sharia in Africa. Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria: Shebiotimo Publications
• Adamu, M. K. (1987) The Islamic Notion of Marriage and Divorce. Laranto: Joeart Publications.
• Afkhami, M. (ed.) (1995) Faith & Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World. I. B. Tauris: London.
• Afshar, H. (1998) Islam and Feminism: An Iranian Case-Study. London: Macmillan Press.
• Ahmad, F. (1994) Triple Talaq: An Analytical Study with Emphasis on Socio Legal Aspects. New Delhi: Regency Publications.
• Ahmed, L. (1992) Women and Gender in Islam. New Haven CT: Yale University Press.
• Akhtar, S. (1994) Shah Bano Judgement in Islamic Perspective, a Socio-Legal Study. New Delhi: Kitab Bhavan.
• Al-Hibri, A.(1982) A Study of Islamic Herstory: Or How Did We Ever Get Into This Mess? Women’s Studies International Forum. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
• Al-Azami, M. (1996) On Schacht’s Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. Oxford: Centre for Islamic Studies and Islamic Texts Society.
• Ali, S. S. (1994) A Comparative Study of The UN Convention on The Rights of The Child, Islamic Law and Pakistan Legislation. Peshawar: Educational Computing Services for Radda Barnen (Save the Children, Sweden)
• Ali, S. S. (1995) A Comparative Study of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Islamic Law and the Laws of Pakistan. Peshawar: Shaheen Press.
• Ali, S. S. (2000) Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law Equal Before Allah, Unequal Before Man? The Hague: Kluwer Law International.
• Ali, S. S. (ed.) (2006) Conceptualising Islamic Law, CEDAW and Women’s Human Rights in Plural Legal Settings: A Comparative Analysis of Application of CEDAW in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. UNIFEM Regional Office: Delhi.
• Alami, D. (1992) The Marriage Contract in Islamic Law. London: Graham & Trotman
• Alami, D. and D. Hinchcliffe. (1996) Islamic Marriage and Divorce Laws of the Arab World. London: Kluwer Law International.
• Amira El Azhary, S. (1996) Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.
• Anderson, J. (1976) Law Reform in the Muslim World. London: Athlone Press.
• An-Naim, A. A. (1990) Towards an Islamic Reformation. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
• An-Naim, A.A. (2002) Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book. London: Zed Press.
• Arabi, O. (2001) Studies in Modern Islamic Law and Jurisprudence. The Hague: Kluwer Law International.
• Awde, N. (2000) Women in Islam: An Anthology from the Qur’an and Hadiths. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
• Bakhtiar, L. (1996) Encyclopaedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Views of the Major Schools.
• Bakhtiar, L. (2001) Jurisprudence and Its Principles. Elmhurst, New York: Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an.
• Badran, M. (1995) Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Barlas, A. (2002) Believing Women in Islam: Un Reading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Quran. Austin: University of Texas Press.
• Bara-Acal, A.M. and Abdulmajid, J. A. (1998) Muslim Law on Personal Status in the Phillipines. Quezon City: Central Professional Books.
• Baxamusa, R. M. (1984) A Historic Perspective on Muslim Personal Law in India. Bombay: Research Unit on Women’s Studies, Vithaldas Vidya Vihar, SNDT Women’s University.
• Bhatnafar, J.P. (1992) Commentary on the Muslim Women: Containing the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Rules, 1986, Maintenance, Etc., Etc. Allahabad: Ashoka Law House.
• Burton, J. (1990) The Sources of Islamic Law. Islamic Theories of Abrogation Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Burton, J. (1977) The Collection of the Qur’an Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• _______ (1990) The Sources of Islamic Law Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• ________ (1994) An Introduction to the Hadith Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Cachalia, F. (1991) The Future of Muslim Family Law in South Africa London: Centre for Applied Legal Studies and Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand. South African Constitutional Studies Centre and Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
• Caroll, L. and H. Kapoor, (1996) Talaq-i- Tafwid: The Muslim Woman’s Contractual Access to Divorce. Women Living Under Muslim Laws.
• Calder, N. (1993) Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Coulson, N. J. (1964) A History of Islamic Law. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Coulson, N. J. (1969) Conflicts and Tensions in Islamic Jurisprudence. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
• Coulson, N.J. (1964) History of Islamic Surveys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Crone, P. (1987) Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Davis, S.S. (1983) Patience and Power: Women’s Lives in a Moroccan Village. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman.
• Diwan, P. and Diwan, P. (1994) Women and Legal Protection. New Delhi: Deep and Deep Publications.
• Dupret, B. et al (1999) Legal Pluralism in the Arab World The Hague: Kluwer Law International.
• Doogue, G. and P. Kirkwood. (2005) Tomorrow’s Islam: Uniting Age Old Beliefs and A Modern World). Australia: Griffiths Press.
• Edge, I. (ed.) (1996) Islamic Law and Legal Theory. Aldershot: Dartmouth.
• Engineer, A.A. (2004) The Rights of Women in Islam. Elgin IL: New Dawn Press.
  El Fadel, A. (2005) The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists. San Francisco, Ca: Harper.
• __________(2004) Islam and the Challenge of Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• ___________(2002)The Place of Tolerance in Islam. Boston, Ma.: Beacon Press.
  __________ (2001) Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• __________(2001) Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women. Oxford: One World Publications.
• _________-(2001) And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America/Rowman and Littlefield.
• ________(2001) Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America/Rowman and Littlefield.
• _________(2002)The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses: A Contemporary Case Study. 3rd edition. Washington, D.C.: Al-Saadawi Publishers.
• Esposito, J.L. (1992) Women in Muslim Family Law. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
• _______ (1992) The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Fyzee, M. (1974) A Handbook of Muhammadan Law. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Gani, H. A. (1988) Reform of Muslim Personal Law: The Shah Bano Controversy and the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986. New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publications.
• Glenn, H.P. (2000) Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Gerami, S. (1996) Women and Fundamentalism: Islam and Christianity. New York: Garland Publications.
• Gribtez, A. (1994) Strange Bedfellows — Mut’at Al-Nisa’ and Mut’at Al-Hajj: A Study Based on Sunni and Shi’I Sources of Tafsir, Hadith and Fiqh. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz.
• Gocek, F.M and Shiva, B. (1994) Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity and Power. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Haeri, S. (1990) The Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Islam. London: I. B. Tauris.
• Hallaq, W. B. (1997) A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni Usul Al-Fiqh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Hallaq, W. B. (2001) Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Hamidullah, M. (1987) Muslim Conduct of State. 7th ed. Lahore: Sh Muhammad Ashraf.
• Hassan, S.Z. S and C. Sven. (1997)Managing Marital Disputes in Malaysia: Islamic Mediators and Conflict Resolution in the Syariah Courts. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, 75.Surrey: Curzon Press.
• Hitti, P. (1961) History of the Arabs. London: McMillan and Co.
• Hussain, S. (2004) Women’s Role Under Islam Delhi: Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd.
• Hussain, A. (1987) Status of Women in Islam, Lahore: Pakistan Law Publications.
• Hodkinson, K. (1984) Muslim Family Law: A Source Book London: Croom Helm.
• Holt, P.M. et al, (1970) The Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Hausfater, G. et al, (1984) Infanticide. New York: Aldine Publishing Company.
• Hoodfar, H. (1996) Shifting Boundaries in Marriage and Divorce in Muslim Communities. Montpellier: Women Living Under Muslim Laws.
• Iqbal, S. (1991) Women and Islamic Law. Delhi: Adam Publishers and Distributors.
• Iqbal, M. (1884) Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Kamali, H.M. (2003) Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence. Cambridge: Islamic Text Society.
• Kandiyoti, D. (ed.) (1991) Women, Islam and the State. London: MacMillan.
• Khadduri, M. (1955) War and Peace in the Law of Islam. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press.
• Khan, M. R. (1993) Socio-Legal Status of Muslim Women. New Delhi: Radian Advent Books.
  Khan, S. (2000) Muslim Women: Crafting a North American Identity Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
• Khan, M.W. (1995) Women Between Islam and Western Society. Delhi: Goodword Books Pvt Ltd.
• Kusha, R. (2002) The Sacred Law of Islam. Aldershot, Dartmouth: Ashgate.
• Layish, A. ( 1991) Divorce in the Libyan Family: A Study Based on the Sijjls of the Shari’a Courts of Ajdabiyya and Kufra. New York: New York University Press.
• Libesny, H. J. (1975) The Law of the Near & Middle East: Readings, Cases & Materials. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• Lyall, C.J. (1930) Translations of Ancient Arabian Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Mahmood, T. (1972) Family Law Reform in the Muslim World. Bombay: N.M. Tripathi Pvt. Ltd.
  Mallat, C. (1993) ‘Shari’a’, Oxford Companion to World Politics. London: Oxford University Press.
  Mannan, M.A (1995) D. F Mulla’s Principles of Mohammadan Law. Lahore: PLD Publishers.
• Maudoodi, A.A. (1983) The Laws of Marriage and Divorce in Islam. Kuwait: Islamic Book Publishers.
• Maudoodi, A. A. (1980) Human Rights in Islam Leicester: Islamic Foundation.
• Maudoodi, A.A. (1997) Purdah Lahore: Islamic Publications.
• Mallat, S. and Connors, J. (1990) Islamic Family Law. London: Graham and Trotman.
• Mayer, A.E. (1998) Islam and Human Rights Tradition and Politics. Boulder CO: Westview Press.
• Masud, M.K. Brinkley, M. and Powers, D. S. (1996) Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatwas. Karachi: Oxford University Press.
• Meriwether, M. and Tucker, J. (1999) A Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East. Boulder CO: Westview Press.
• Mernissi, F. (1987) Beyond the Veil. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Mernissi, F. (1991) Women and Islam translated by Mary Jo Lakeland, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
• Mir-Hosseini, Z. (1993) Marriage on Trial. London: I.B. Tauris.
• Moors, A. (1995) Women, Property and Islam, Palestinian Experiences 1920-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Nasir, J. (1990) The Islamic law of Personal Status London: Graham & Trotman.
• Nasir, J. (1994) The Status of Women Under Islamic Law. London: Graham & Trotman.
• Nicholas, A. (2000) Women in Islam: An Anthology From the Qur’an and Hadiths. New York: St.Martin’s Press.
• Nicholson, R.A. (1966) A Literary History of The Arabs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Pearl, D. and Menski, W. (1998) Muslim Family Law. London: Sweet and Maxwell.
• Price, D. E. (1999) Islamic Political Culture, Democracy, and Human Rights: A Comparative Study. Westport: CT Praeger.
• Rahim, A. (1995) The Principles of Muhammadan Jurisprudence, Lahore: Mansoor Book House.
• Rehman, F. (1979) Islam. London: Chicago University Press.
• Rehman, F. (1982) Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
• Rehman, J. (2005) Islamic State Practices, International Law and the Threat from Terrorism: A Critique of the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ in the New World Order Oxford: Hart Publishing.
• Rehman, J. (2003) International Human Rights Law. London: Longman.
• Rehman, T. (1997) Muslim Family Laws Ordinance: Islamic and Social Survey Karachi: Royal Book Company.
• Roald, A. S. (2001) Women in Islam The Western Experience. London: Routledge.
• Sewlani, P. (1992) The Muslim Women: Protection of Rights on Divorce Act, 1986 With Rules and Full Text of Judgments Jalgaon: Universal Law House.
• Shaham, R. (1997) Family and the Courts in Modern Egypt: A Study Based on Decisions by the Shari’a Courts, 1900-1955. Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill.
• Shaheed, F et al. (1996) Shaping Women’s Lives: Laws, Practices and Strategies in Pakistan. Lahore: Shirkatgah.
• Sirajudin, A.M. (2000) Sharia Law and Society: Tradition and Change in South Asia. Karachi: Oxford University Press.
• Schacht, J. (1964) An Introduction to Islamic Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Schacht, J. (1950) Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Sonbol, A. (1996) Women, the Family and Divorce Laws in Islamic History, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
• Stowasser, B. (1994) Women in the Qur’an, Traditions, and Interpretation. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Tabataba’i, H.M. (1984) An Introduction to Shi’i Law: A Bibliographical Study. London: Ithaca Press.
  Taha, M. M. (1987) The Second Message of Islam. translated by A. A. Naim Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
• Toledano, H. (1981) Judicial Practice and Family Law in Morocco: The Chapter on Marriage From Sijilmasi’s Al-‘Amal Al-Mutlaq. Boulder (CO): Social Science Monographs.
• Tucker, J. (1997) In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Syria and Palestine, 17th-18th Centuries Berkley: University of California Press.
• Utas, B. (1983) Women in Islamic Societies: Social Attitudes and Historical Perspectives. London: Curzon.
• Viorst, M. (2001) In the Shadow of the Prophet. New York: West view Press.
• Wadud, A. (1992) Qur’an and Woman. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.
• Wani, M.A. (1987) Maintenance Rights of Muslim Women: Principles, Precedents and Trends. New Delhi: Genuine Publications.
• Weis, B.G. (1998) The Spirit of Islamic Law Georgia: University of Georgia Press.
• Weis, B.G. (2002) Studies in Islamic Legal Theory. Boston: Brill.
• Welchman, L. (2000) Beyond the Code: Muslim Family Law and Shari Judiciary in the Palestinian West Bank The Hague: Kluwer Law International.
• Welchman, L. (ed.) (2004) Women’s Rights and Islamic Family law: Perspectives on Reform. London: Zed Books Ltd.
• Yamani, M. (ed.) (1996) Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives. Ithaca Press.
• Zia, A.S. (1994) Sex Crime in the Islamic Context: Rape, Class, and Gender in Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan: ASR Publications.

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