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The Study of Islamic Law in Germany: A Review of Recent Books on Islamic Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Hilmar Krüger
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 15 , 2001 , pp. 303 - 330
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2000

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References

1. Decades ago Antonio d'Emilia (1908-1968) described Schacht's book as “un libro … veramente indispensabile.” 39 Annuario di Diritto Comparato e di Studi Legislativi 218–221 (Roma: Anonima romana editoriale 1965) [hereinafter Annuario]Google Scholar; d'Emilia, Antonio, Scritti di Diritto Islamico 653, 659 (Roma: Istituto per l'Oriente 1976) [hereinafter Scritti]Google Scholar.

2. A useful bibliography of reports and documents on the history of Islamic studies in Germany by individual scholars and institutions, though only with occasional allusions to the study of Islamic law, can be found in the appendix of a recent publication edited by Rudolph, Ekkehard, Bestandsaufnahme. Kultur-und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung in der muslimischen Wilt in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 192–197 (Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut 1999) (ISBN: 3-89173-055-1)Google Scholar. See also Johansen, Baber, Politics and Scholarship: The Development of Islamic Studies in the Federal Republic of Germany, in Middle East Studies—International Perspectives on the State of the Art 71–130 (Ismael, Tareq Y., ed., N.Y.: Praeger 1990)Google Scholar; Johansen provides a thorough overview on this topic up to 1990, including remarks on the study of Islamic law. Id. at 106, 110.

3. Annuario, supra n. 1, at 210; Scritti, supra n. 1, at 653.

4. Paret, Rudi, The Study of Arabic and Islam at German Universities 57 (Wiesbaden: F. Steiner 1968)Google Scholar.

5. See Krüger, Hilmar, Arabische Staaten-Gesetzesübersichten 89–98 (7th ed., Cologne: Bundesstelle für Aussenhandelsinformation 1999)Google Scholar.

6. Glander, Annelies, Inheritance in Islam. Women's Inheritance in Sana'a (Republic of Yemen). Law, Religion, and Reality 141 (Frankfurt: P. Lang 1998) (ISBN: 3-631-34-80-X)Google Scholar.

7. Tellenbach has also published an excellent bilingual edition of the Turkish Criminal Code (Turkish and German): Tellenbach, Silvia, Das Türkische Strafgesetzbuch—Türk Ceza Kanunu. (Freiburg: Edition Iuscrim 1998) (ISBN: 3-86113-952-9)Google Scholar.

8. [Editor's Note: Full publication information for this source is located in section IV. 1 of the Bibliography.]

9. See also Khoury, Adel Theodor, Was will der Islam? Anspruch und kritische Würdigung. (Heidelberg: C.F. Müller 1997) (ISBN: 3-8114-1598-0)Google Scholar. (This publication is based on a lecture delivered to the Society for the Legal Studies of Karlsruhe in 1997).

10. d'Adelbourg, Edouard, Recuil de fetvas ou décisions de la loi musulmane concernant le contrat de louage (Constantinople, 1838)Google Scholar; see the comprehensive review of this book by von Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph & Stubenrauch, von, Jahrbücher der Literatur 102 (1843), 19–32Google Scholar.

11. Johansen, supra n., 2, at 106.

* [Editor's Note: The books contained in this bibliography are presented in thematic order related to the sections of the Review Essay; and with each thematic grouping the books are presented in the order in which they have been published.]