The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law

Anver M. Emon is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law (OUP 2014), co-editor of the Oxford Islamic Legal Studies series, and founding editor of the journal Middle East Law and Governance. Rumee Ahmed is Associate Professor of Islamic Law and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia.

Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed: Editors' Introduction
I. Discipline and Critique
A. Islamic Legal Studies
1: Ayesha Chaudhry: Islamic Legal Studies: A Critical Historiography
2: Anver M. Emon: Fiqh
3: Saadia Yacoob: Islamic Law and Gender
4: Rumee Ahmed: Islamic Law and Theology
5: John R. Bowen: Anthropology and Islamic Law
6: Andrew F. March: Falsafa and Law
Part II Legal Theory and Institutions
A. Legal Theory
7: Anver M. Emon: Ijtihad
8: Robert Gleave: Imami Shi'i Legal Theory: From its Origins to the Early-Twentieth Century
9: Ayman Shabana: Custom in the Islamic Legal Tradition
10: Youcef Soufi: The Historiography of Sunni Usul al-Fiqh
11: Mairaj U. Syed: Ijma'
B. Institutions
12: Mohammad Fadel: al-Qadi
13: Kristen Stilt and M. Safa Saraçoglu: Hisba and Muhtasib
14: Matthieu Tillier: The Mazalim in Historiography
Part III Origins, Empires, and States
A. Historical Studies
15: Benjamin Jokisch: Origins of and Influences on Islamic law
16: Mariam Sheibani, Amir Toft, and Ahmed El Shamsy: The Classical Period: Scripture, Origins, and Early Development
17: Marion Katz: The Age of Development and Continuity, 12th-15th Centuries CE
18: Matthew B. Ingalls: The Historiography of Islamic Law During the Mamluk Sultanate
19: Haim Gerber: Law in the Ottoman Empire
20: M. Reza Pirbhai: A Historiography of Islamic Law in the Mughal Empire
21: Rula Jurdi Abisaab: Delivering Justice: The Monarch's 'Urfi Courts and the Shari'a in Safavid Iran
22: Syed Adnan Hussain: Anglo-Muhammadan Law
23: Leonard Wood: Legislation as an Instrument of Islamic Law
Part IV Regional Variations
A. Muslim-Majority States
24: Melissa Crouch: Islamic Law and Society in Southeast Asia
25: Antonia Fraser Fujinaga: Islamic Law in Post-Revolutionary Iran
26: Ruth A. Miller: The Turkish Republic
27: Jeff Redding: Islamic Law in South Asia: A Testament to Diversity
B. Muslim Minorities
28: Natasha Bakht: The Incorporation of Shari'a in North America: Enforcing the Mahr to Combat Women's Poverty Post-Relationship Dissolution
29: Mathias Rohe: Islamic Law in Western Europe
30: Abdullah Saeed: Shari'a in Australia
Part V Substantive Legal Areas
A. Case Studies
31: Nathan J. Brown and Mara Revkin: Islamic Law and Constitutions
32: Shannon Dunn: Islamic Law and Human Rights
33: Anver M. Emon: Islamic Law and Finance
34: Kristen Stilt: Animals
35: Lynn Welchman: A Historiography of Islamic Family Law
Index