TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nadirsyah Hosen
TI  - Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society
SN  - 9781781003053
U1  - 340.59 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Edward Elgar Publishing
KW  - Islamic law
KW  - Islamic law - Social aspects
N1  - Introduction: Islamic law in action
Nadirsyah Hosen

PART 1 FAMILY LAW AND COURTS
1. Colonial legacies: family laws in Singapore and Australia
Ann Black

2. The application of kafala in the West
Kieran Mclean Eadie

3. ‘The best interests of the child’: critical analysis of the Libyan High Court decision
Ali Omar Ali Mesrati

4. ADR and Islamic law: the cases of the UK and Singapore
Arif A. Jamal

PART 2 PROPERTY AND BUSINESS
5. Corporate social responsibility and workplace casualties in Bangladesh: an appraisal of Islamic principles as a potential solution
S. M. Solaiman

6. Business in Islam: revisiting Islamic banking practices in Bangladesh
Afroza Begum

7. Property law and trusts (waqf) in Iran
Hossein Esmaeili

PART 3 CRIMINAL LAW AND JUSTICE
8. Corporate criminal liability in Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Fahad Aljiday Alsubaie

9. Blasphemy and apostasy laws in the Muslim world: a critical analysis
Faisal Kutty

10. Restorative justice in Islamic law: application in Malaysian legal history and the criminal justice system
Hanifah Haydar Ali Tajuddin, Nasimah Hussin and Majdah Zawawi

PART 4 ETHICS, HEALTH AND SCIENCES
11. Genetic engineering and ethics in Muslim communities: case studies from Tunisia and Saudi Arabia
Nurussyariah Hammado

12. Collective ijtihad on health issues in Indonesia
Nadirsyah Hosen

13. Halal and other codes: can religion, science and ethics guide legal regulation?
Richard Mohr

PART 5 ARTS AND EDUCATION
14. Finding the Islam in Islamic art: the relationship between Islamic law and artistic practice
Mia Corbett

15. The lawfulness of music in contemporary Indonesian debate
Neneng Yanti Khozanatu Lahpan

16. Educational rights for women in Saudi Arabia
Maan Abdul Haq Khutani

PART 6 COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SPHERES
17. Progressive Islam in Europe: a critical analysis of the unique nature of Bosnia and Hercegovina’s Islamic practice
Richard Burgess

18. Khutbahs and fatwas in colonial Indonesia and Malaya
Muhamad Ali
N2  - The Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society provides an examination of the role of Islamic law as it applies in Muslim and non-Muslim societies through legislation, fatwa, court cases, sermons, media, or scholarly debate. It illuminates the intersection of social, political, economic and cultural factors that inform Islamic Law across a number of jurisdictions. Chapters evaluate when and how actors and institutions have turned to Islamic law to address problems faced by societies in Muslim and, in some cases, Western states
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