This unparalleled Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to Islamic law to all with an interest in this increasingly relevant and developing field. The volume presents classical Islamic law through a historiographical introduction to and analysis of Western scholarship, while key debates about hot-button issues in modern-day circumstances are also addressed.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1 Introduction: The Nature of the Sharia - Rudolph Peters and Peri Bearman
• PART I THE HISTORICAL ISLAMIC LAW
• 2 The Origins of the Sharia - Knut S. Vikør
• 3 The Divine Sources - Herbert Berg
• 4 The Schools of Law - Paul R. Powers
• 5 Deriving Rules of Law - Robert Gleave
• 6 The Judge and the Mufti - Brinkley Messick
• 7 State and Sharia - Mohammad Fadel
• 8 Qanun and Sharia - Boğaç A. Ergene
• PART II SUBSTANTIVE ISLAMIC LAW
• 9 Equality before the Law - Gianluca P. Parolin
• 10 Gender Relations - Christina Jones-Pauly
• 11 Socio-Economic Justice - Hiroyuki Yanagihashi
• 12 Public Order - Christian R. Lange
• 13 Constitutional Authority - Andrew F. March
• 14 War and Peace - Sohail H. Hashmi
• PART III ISLAMIC LAW THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE MODERN STATE
• 15 Sharia and the Colonial State - Léon Buskens
• 16 Sharia and the Nation State - Maurits S. Berger
• 17 The Re-Islamization of Legal Systems - Martin Lau
• PART IV PRESENT-DAY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT SHARIA
• 18 Sharia and Finance - Abdullah Saeed
• 19 Sharia and the Muslim Diaspora - Mathias Rohe
• 20 Sharia and Modernity - Kristine Kalanges
• 21 Sharia and Medical Ethics - Birgit Krawietz
• 22 Epilogue: The Normative Relevance of Sharia in the Modern Context - Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na‘im
• Glossary