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Understanding Islamic Law in Theory and Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2009

Mashood Baderin
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Abstract

Professor Mashood Baderin of the School of Oriental and African Studies explains the basic concepts of Islamic law. He discusses its sources, including the distinction between Sharīcah and Fiqh and its methods and principles. He concludes with a discussion of the various Schools of Islamic jurisprudence.

Keywords

Islamic law
Type
Islamic Law
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 2009 , pp. 186 - 190
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Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2009

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Endnotes

1 Al-Ati, H. Abd, The Family Structure in Islam (Indianapolis: ATP, 1977) p.14Google Scholar.

2 Q26:192 says: ‘Verily this is a Revelation from the Lord of the Worlds’. The revelation of the Qur'an to the Prophet commenced in Mecca in 609CE when the Prophet was 40 years old and ended with the Prophet's death in Medina at the age of 63 years in 632CE.

3 See e.g. Q2:238 and Q2:183.

4 See e.g. Q4:86 and Q17:23.

5 See e.g. Q2:275 and Q5:38-39.

6 See e.g. Mahmood, T., “Law in the Qur'an: A Draft Code” (1987) 7 Islamic Comparative Law Quarterly, 1Google Scholar.

7 Ramadan, S., Islamic Law: Its Scope and Equity (London: Macmillan, 1970) p. 36Google Scholar.

8 See e.g. Hasan, A. (Trans), Sunan Abū Dāwūd (1984), Vol. III, p.1019Google Scholar, Hadîth No.3585.

9 Reported in Sunan Ibn Majah.

10 See e.g. Hourani, G.F., “The Basis of Authority of Consensus in Sunnite Islam” (1964) 21 Studia Islamica, pp. 13–60CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 See e.g. Kamali, M.H., “Qawa'id al-Fiqh: The Legal Maxims of Islamic Law” (1998) 3 The Muslim Lawyer Journal, Issue 2, OctoberGoogle Scholar.

12 S. Ramadan, supra, p.36.

13 Iqbal, M., The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1951) p.148Google Scholar.