The Law Of The Near And Middle East

Author : Herbert J. Liebesny
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1975-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438410869

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The Law of the Near and Middle East by Herbert J. Liebesny Pdf

A systematic survey of fundamental statements of Islamic and Near Eastern law that includes selections from the writings of classic Islamic scholars, contemporary works on legal theory, and modern Middle Eastern codes. No other accessible work brings together so many useful materials on the development of Islamic law, as does this volume based on translations from a variety of languages and numerous sources, all of which are identified. Because of the important role which law plays in Islamic culture, some acquaintance with legal developments is indispensible if one is to gain a rounded picture of Islamic culture.

Author : Herbert J. Liebesny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Law
ISBN : LCCN:73153019

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The Law of the Near and Middle East by Herbert J. Liebesny Pdf

Author : Herbert J. Liebesny
Publisher : Albany : State University of New York Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Law
ISBN : 087395257X

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The Law of the Near & Middle East by Herbert J. Liebesny Pdf

Author : Chibli Mallat
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191021725

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Introduction to Middle Eastern Law by Chibli Mallat Pdf

This book provides an introduction to the laws of the Middle East, defining the contours of a field of study that deserves to be called 'Middle Eastern law'. It introduces Middle Eastern law as a reflection of legal styles, many of which are shared by Islamic law and the laws of Christian and Jewish Near Eastern communities. It offers a detailed survey of the foundations of Middle Eastern Law, using court archives and an array of legal sources from the earliest records of Hammurabi to the massive compendia of law in the Islamic classical age through to the latest decisions of Middle Eastern high courts. It focuses on the way legislators and courts conceive of law and apply it in the Middle East. It builds on the author's extensive legal practice, with the aim of introducing the Middle Eastern law's main sources and concepts in a manner accessible to non-specialist legal scholars and practitioners alike. The book begins with an exploration of the depth and variety of Middle Eastern law, introducing the concepts of shari'a, fiqh, and qanun, (which all mean 'law'), and dwelling on Islamic law as the 'common law' of the Middle East. It provides a historical introduction to the contemporary Middle East, exploring political systems, constitutional law, judicial review, the laws of tort and obligations, commercial law (including Islamic banking, company law, capital markets, and commercial arbitration); and examines legislative reform in family law and the position of women in the legal system. The author considers the interaction between Islamic and Western laws and includes a bibliography designed for further research into the jurisdictions and themes explored throughout the book.

Author : Dror Ze’evi,Ehud R. Toledano
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110439755

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Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East by Dror Ze’evi,Ehud R. Toledano Pdf

Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East:“Modernities” in the Making is an edited volume that seeks to deepen and broaden our understanding of various forms of change in Middle Eastern and North African societies during the Ottoman period. It offers an in-depth analysis of reforms and gradual change in the longue durée, challenging the current discourse on the relationship between society, culture, and law. The focus of the discussion shifts from an external to an internal perspective, as agency transitions from “the West” to local actors in the region. Highlighting the ongoing interaction between internal processes and external stimuli, and using primary sources in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, the authors and editors bring out the variety of modernities that shaped south-eastern Mediterranean history. The first part of the volume interrogates the urban elite household, the main social, political, and economic unit of networking in Ottoman societies. The second part addresses the complex relationship between law and culture, looking at how the legal system, conceptually and practically, undergirded the socio-cultural aspects of life in the Middle East. Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East consists of eleven chapters, written by well-established and younger scholars working in the field of Middle East and Islamic Studies. The editors, Dror Ze'evi and Ehud R. Toledano, are both leading historians, who have published extensively on Middle Eastern societies in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman periods.

Author : Ali A. Hakim
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Law
ISBN : 0719007119

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The Middle Eastern States and the Law of the Sea by Ali A. Hakim Pdf

Author : Majid Khadduri,Herbert J. Liebesny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Islamic law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070611962

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Law in the Middle East by Majid Khadduri,Herbert J. Liebesny Pdf

Author : Chibli Mallat
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191566530

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Introduction to Middle Eastern Law by Chibli Mallat Pdf

This book provides an introduction to the laws of the Middle East, defining the contours of a field of study that deserves to be called 'Middle Eastern law'. It introduces Middle Eastern law as a reflection of legal styles, many of which are shared by Islamic law and the laws of Christian and Jewish Near Eastern communities. It offers a detailed survey of the foundations of Middle Eastern law, using court archives and an array of legal sources from the earliest records of Hammurabi to the massive compendia of law in the Islamic classical age through to the latest decisions of Middle Eastern high courts. It focuses on the way legislators and courts conceive of law and apply it in the Middle East. It builds on the author's extensive legal practice, with the aim of introducing the Middle Eastern law's main sources and concepts in a manner accessible to non-specialist legal scholars and practitioners alike. The book begins with an exploration of the depth and variety of Middle Eastern law, introducing the concepts of shari'a, fiqh, and qanun, (which all mean 'law'), and dwelling on Islamic law as the 'common law' of the Middle East. It provides a historical introduction to the contemporary Middle East, exploring political systems, constitutional law, judicial review, the laws of tort and obligations, commercial law (including Islamic banking, company law, capital markets, and commercial arbitration); and examines legislative reform in family law and the position of women in the legal system. The author considers the interaction between Islamic and Western laws and includes a bibliography designed for further research into the jurisdictions and themes explored throughout the book.

Author : Nadjma Yassari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317168645

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Changing God's Law by Nadjma Yassari Pdf

This volume identifies and elaborates on the significance and functions of the various actors involved in the development of family law in the Middle East. Besides the importance of family law regulations for each individual, family law has become the battleground of political and social contestation. Divided into four parts, the collection presents a general overview and analysis of the development of family law in the region and provides insights into the broader context of family law reform, before offering examples of legal development realised by codification drawn from a selection of Gulf states, Iran, and Egypt. It then goes on to present a thorough analysis of the role of the judiciary in the process of lawmaking, before discussing ways the parties themselves may have shaped and do shape the law. Including contributions from leading authors of Middle Eastern law, this timely volume brings together many isolated aspects of legal development and offers a comprehensive picture on this topical subject. It will be of interest to scholars and academics of family law and religion.

Author : Jean Allain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351926775

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International Law in the Middle East by Jean Allain Pdf

Examining international law through the lens of the Middle East, this insightful study demonstrates the qualitatively different manner in which international law is applied in this region of the world. Law is intended to produce a just society, but as it is ultimately a social construct that has travelled through a political process, it cannot be divorced from its relationship to power. The study demonstrates that this understanding shapes the notion, strongly held in the Middle East, that law is little more than a tool of the powerful, used for coercion and oppression. The author considers a number of formative events to demonstrate how the Middle East has become an underclass of the international system wherein law is applied and interpreted selectively, used coercively and, in noticeable situations, simply disregarded. International Law in the Middle East brings various narratives of history to the fore to create a wider arena in which international law can be considered and critiqued.

Author : Majid Khadduri,Herbert J. Liebesny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Islamic law
ISBN : OCLC:174352178

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Law in the Middle East by Majid Khadduri,Herbert J. Liebesny Pdf

Author : Comair-Obeid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004634909

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The Law of Business Contracts in the Arab Middle East by Comair-Obeid Pdf

This book is a basic treatise for those practising and arbitrating in the legal and commercial aspects of business in Middle East Countries. It examines the influence of traditional Islamic law on modern legislation as it affects trade, contracting, banking and financial operations. This book is highly topical and serves the needs of academics, of legal practitioners and of contractors.

Author : Eugene Cotran,Mai Yamani
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110348195

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The Rule of Law in the Middle East and the Islamic World by Eugene Cotran,Mai Yamani Pdf

Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, much attention has been focused on an international standard on human rights applicable to all cultures. But is this standard observed by Middle Eastern and Islamic governments and enforced by their judiciaries? In this country-by-country survey, a range of distinguished scholars, practitioners and judges explore how the concepts of ""the Rule of Law"" and ""Human Rights"" are being debated and applied in the Middle East.

Author : Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0873959884

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Property, Social Structure, and Law in the Modern Middle East by Ann Elizabeth Mayer Pdf

For too long the study of law and society in the modern Middle East has been left to specialists in narrow subcategories of law or the social sciences. Property, Social Structure, and Law in the Modern Middle East lays the groundwork for a new field of scholarship in which analysis of the social dimensions of law and the legal dimensions of social structure are integrated. It offers the stimulus of a variety of new models of scholarship by a distinguished international group of contributors whose work shares a common focus on regimes of property in the societies of the modern Middle East. The case studies examine the regulations of many kinds of property in relation to the social structures of selected Middle Eastern communities form the eighteenth century to the present. Most of the societies studied are subjected to pressures for rapid modernization and adjustment to major economic transformations. The book features comparisons of property rights and relations under regimes of Islamic and customary law as well as modern statutory law. Highlighted are new patterns of intervention by modern Middle Eastern states to alter traditional regimes of property and to transform the accompanying social structures. Their implications for development are also considered. The book's notes and bibliographies constitute a valuable resource for anyone interested in further research.

Author : Majid Khadduri,Herbert J. Liebesny
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Islamic law
ISBN : 9781584778646

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Origin and Development of Islamic Law by Majid Khadduri,Herbert J. Liebesny Pdf

The American profession should welcome this exhaustive and authentic work edited by two scholars who are authorities on the law of Islam and also students of the law of the United States. These editors have enlisted leading authorities on special subjects and have presented the whole in a manner that should appeal to American interest and understanding. Dr. Khadduri and Dr. Liebesny are entitled to our thanks and to our congratulations. It is to be hoped that Law in the Middle East will be widely read and pondered by the American legal profession and all who believe understanding begets good will.