The History of an Islamic School of Law: The Early Spread of Hanafism. By Nurit Tsafrir. Harvard Series on Islamic Law 3. Cambridge, Mass.: Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, 2004. Pp. xv + 199. $36.50.

2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-230
Author(s):  
Christopher Melchert
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Law School ◽  
Islamic School ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
History Of

Opening Remarks

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-167
Author(s):  
S. Blair Kauffman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
International Law ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Law School ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Sunday Afternoon ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Law Library

The papers in this issue were presented at the IALL's 21st Annual Course on International Law Librarianship, held at Yale Law School, October 20 through October 23, 2002. The program featured several of America's great scholars in international law and drew on the rich resources of Yale University and its environs. It also introduced participants to the history of legal education in America and included excursions to America's first national law school, in Litchfield, Connecticut, and to the United Nations headquarters, in New York City. A pre-conference reception was held at the nearby Quinnipiac University School of Law Library, on Sunday afternoon, October 20th, in Hamden, Connecticut, and a post-conference institute on Islamic Law, was held on October 24th, at Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

scholarly journals Learning of Islamic Law in Contemporary Universities: Case Study of Faculty of Sharīʻah & Law of International Islamic University Islamabad and Islamic Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-89
Author(s):  
Naureen Akhtar ◽  
Atia Madni ◽  
Rais Nouman Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Divine Guidance

Purpose: This research paper aims to study the standing of learning of Islamic Law in contemporary universities. The present study highlights the significance of Islamic Law learning to the legal practitioners (Bar) and legal academicians in general and to the judges (Bench) in particular. This paper endeavors to conduct a case study of learning of Islamic law in contemporary universities in Muslim and Non-Muslim jurisdictions. Methodology: For the purpose of this research paper, two universities have been selected where departments of Islamic law learning are established, i.e., Faculty of Sharīʻah & Law of International Islamic University, Islamabad and Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Program of Harvard law School. This study explores that how far the above-mentioned institutions in various jurisdictions have been successful in imparting Islamic Law education among their law students. It follows discussion on the relevancy of Islamic law learning and its understanding in the solution of contemporary issues of the modern world. Findings: This paper finds that Islamic law, being based on divine guidance, is the complete code of conduct and therefore, provides guidelines to discover and find out the solutions of all issues of modern world to Bar, academicians and Bench.                                                           

scholarly journals HISTORISITAS DAN SUMBER DALIL UṢUL FIQH SHI’AH

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-45
Author(s):  
Aspandi Aspandi
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law

In the history of the development of Islamic law, the existence of fiqh is one of the sciences that has given birth to a variety of methodologies in Islamic legal studies. Broadly speaking, the existence of fiqh proposals can be represented by the presence of Sunni and Shi'a fiqh proposals. As a theological group in Islam, Shi'ah has a different concept of fiqh from Sunni. This research is descriptive in nature, providing an explanation of the history of the development of shia fiqh, law in the perspective of shia, the propositions of shia fikh, and Istinbat in the perspective of shia. The conclusions from this study, that the Shi'a fiqh proposal is divided into two groups, namely Akhbariyyun and Uṣuliyyun. In the process of determining the law, the Akhbariyyun group returned the matter to the Qur'an and Sunnah based on the determination of their Imams. The Akhbariyyun group holds that only their imams have the authority of ijtihad to establish laws based on the Qur'an and Sunnah. As is known, scholars' Shi'ah call Dalil al-Qur'an, Sunnah, Ijma, and ‘Aql as the proposition Ijtihadi. Thus it can be said that Uṣul Shi’ah Akhbariyyun is; Al-Kitab, namely al-Qur'an, Sunnah and words, deeds, and taqrir of the Imam. The Uul Uṣuliyyun group, namely; Al-Kitab, Sunnah, and the words, deeds, and taqrir of the Ulema and Ijtihad which in their terms are called the proposition ‘Aql.

scholarly journals Present at the Resurrection: Islamic Finance and Islamic Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haider Ala Hamoudi
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Law School ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
American University ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
International Academy

26 American University International Law Review 1107 (2011)This short paper summarizes an extremely stimulating plenary session, held at the XVIIIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Washington DC, dealing specifically with the topic of Islamic finance. The speakers were three renowned leaders in the field. Specifically, they were Kilian Balz, a partner at Amereller who has both practiced extensively in the field, and written about it while at the Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, Frank Vogel, coauthor of a leading book on Islamic finance and former director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, and Mahmoud El Gamal, a prolific writer and fierce critic of the practice who also served as the appointed Islamic finance scholar in residence at the Department of the Treasury in 2004.

IALL at 40

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Larry B. Wenger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Association ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Law School ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Association ◽  
The University

The appearance of this issue of the International Journal of Legal Information coincides almost exactly with the 40th anniversary of the founding of the International Association of Law Libraries. In June, 1959, a group of law librarians with long established personal interests in international law librarianship met in New York, with the goal of establishing an organization that would facilitate their work and bring law librarians around the world in closer contact. Professor William R. Roalfe of Northwestern University Law School in Chicago was elected the first President of the new Association, and Mr. K. Howard Drake of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, the Vice President. A report summarizing the organizational meeting was prepared by Adolf Sprudzs of the University of Chicago Law Library, who subsequently devoted much of his career to international law librarianship and particularly to the work of the Association, including serving two terms as its President (see appendix). For a recent history of the Association, please see the article by Mr. Sprudzs in The Law Librarian, volume 26 at page 321, 1995.

Codification and Islamic Law: The Ideology Behind a Tragic Narrative

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 275-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anver M. Emon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Administrative State ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
Democratic Ideology ◽  
The Relationship

This article repositions historigraphically a particular thesis in Islamic legal studies that characterizes Islamic law as utterly incompatible with codification, and by implication the modern administrative state. This article departs from that argument by situating codification efforts in Muslim majority polities alongside other efforts at codification, specifically 19th century Germany and the United States. The article shows that the thesis of incompatibility relies on a constricted reading of the “Islamic”, an overdetermined conception of the state, and an under-appreciation of the populist-cum-democratic ideology that animates the thesis in the first place. A more fruitful way forward is to reify the “state” rather than rarefy it as a theophanic specter. To better appreciate the relationship between Islamic law and codification, the argument suggests, requires that scholars attend to the “state” while resituating the history of the “Islamic” in terms of a history of the “legal”.

Medina Gounass: Constructing Extra-National Space in a West African Borderland

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
David Newman Glovsky
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
West African ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
National Space ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
History Of ◽  
Postcolonial Africa ◽  
Postcolonial States ◽  
The Town

Abstract The historical autonomy of the religious community of Medina Gounass in Senegal represents an alternative geographic territory to that of colonial and postcolonial states. The borderland location of Medina Gounass allowed the town to detach itself from colonial and independent Senegal, creating parallel governmental structures and imposing a particular interpretation of Islamic law. While in certain facets this autonomy was limited, the community was able to distance itself through immigration, cross-border religious ties, and smuggling. Glovsky’s analysis of the history of Medina Gounass offers a case study for the multiplicity of geographical and territorial entities in colonial and postcolonial Africa.

Methodology of institutional analysis and its implication for contemporary framework of Islamic banks

Humanomics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Javaid
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Methodological Error ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
History Of Evolution ◽  
History Of

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the possibility of a methodological error made by the concerned scholars and academics of Islamic finance & economics to understand and study the modern framework of financial institutions, where they intend to practice Islamic law of contract. This error has led them to expect something which the institutional modern framework of banks, adopted by Islamic banks (for e.g.), wasn’t designed to accomplish, hence the disappointment. Design/methodology/approach – This study reviews the literature on history of evolution of banking industry and the corresponding ideological and cultural changes in the European society which drove this evolution; this is followed by a conceptual analysis to identify the institutional components inconsistent with ethos of Islamic norms and ethos. Findings – After review of history and evolution of modern banking framework, in the light of Hollingsworth frame of institutional analysis, it is inferred that the said framework was designed for a secular, liberal and capitalist society to efficiently and effectively enhance freedom and accumulate capital and wealth, without much regard for equitable distribution of wealth and economic justice. These goals are very much in contrast with the normative premise of Islamic Economics, which cannot be efficiently used to achieve the related objective. This indicates that framework of banking was narrowly understood by the concerned scholars and academics, without considering its history of evolution and intended objectives, before adopting for IBs. Practical implications – The disconnect between the Western institutional framework and ethos of Islam implies that the concerned need to look deeper and holistically while adapting Western institutions, so that necessary alteration is done in advance, if such an adoption is inevitable. Originality/value – This study introduces a new dimension for the concerned scholars, academics and practitioners to reanalyze the institutional framework adopted from the West, so that necessary adjustments can be worked out to make the said framework compatible with the ethos of Islamic economics.

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