Sharia Incorporated A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present

"Sharia Incorporated is an ambitious study of how Islamic law traditions have been incorporated into the national legal systems throughout the Muslim world. Both puritan Islamists and Western alarmists tend to oversimplify and misrepresent the role and position of sharia. In response, this book...

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Main Author: Otto, Jan Michiel, 1952- author (author)
Other Authors: Otto, Jan Michiel, 1952- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Leiden] : Leiden University Press 2010.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Law, governance, and development. Research.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439823806719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: investigating the role of sharia in national law / Jan Michiel Otto
  • Sharia and national law in Egypt / Maurits Berger and Nadia Sonneveld
  • Sharia and national law in Morocco / Leon Buskens
  • Sharia and national law in Saudi Arabia / Esther van Eijk
  • Shariʻa and national law in the Sudan / Olaf Köndgen
  • Islam and national law in Turkey / Mustafa Koçak
  • Sharia and national law in Afghanistan / Nadjma Yassari and Mohammad Hamid Saboory
  • Sharia and national law in Iran / Ziba Mir-Hosseini
  • Sharia and national law in Pakistan / Martin Lau
  • Sharia and national law in Indonesia / Jan Michiel Otto
  • Sharia and national law in Malaysia / Andrew Harding
  • Sharia and national law in Mali / Dorothea Schulz
  • Sharia and national law in Nigeria / Philip Ostien and Albert Dekker
  • Towards comparative conclusions on the role of sharia in national law / Jan Michiel Otto.