This ambitious study of the development and incorporation of sharia and Islamic and customary law traditions into national legal, political, and social state structures provides an in-depth analysis of the role of sharia in the historical and legal formation of twelve representative Muslim states and ...
In both the West and throughout the Muslim world, Islamic family law is a highly and hotly debated topic. In the Muslim World, the discussions at the heart of these debates are often primarily concerned with the extent to which classical Islamic family law should be implemented in the national legal ...