Main Content
Week 3 - Sources of Law I: Foundational Texts: Qur'an & Sunna/Hadith
2.1
Week 4 - Sources of Law II : Interpretive Methods: Consensus and Legal Reasoning (Ijtihad)
2.2
Week 5 - Early Islamic Family Law: Marriage and Divorce in Egyptian History
3.1
Week 6 - Codification and Reform of Islamic Family Law: Egypt, Iran, Morocco vs. India, US
3.2
Week 7 - Criminal Law Substance & Procedure: Mamluk Egypt & Central Islamic Lands
4.1
Week 8 - Criminal Law Substance & Politics: Northern Nigeria & The Maldives
4.2
Week 9 - Contracts and Commercial Transactions: Ottoman Lands
5.1
YASIN DUTTON, THE ORIGINS OF ISLAMIC LAW: THE QURʾĀN, THE MUWAT ̣T ̣Aʾ AND MADINAN ʿAMAL [Excerpts] (Surrey: Curzon, 1999)
2.1.7
Yossef Rapoport, Legal Diversity in the Age of Taqlīd: The Four Chief Qāḍīs under the Mamlūks, 10 ISLAMIC L. & SOC’Y [Excerpts] (2003)
1.7
YOSSEF RAPOPORT, MARRIAGE, MONEY, AND DIVORCE IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC SOCIETY (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) [Excerpts]
3.1.5
This book, and all H2O books, are Creative Commons licensed for sharing and re-use with the exception of certain excerpts. Any excerpts from the Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, and the Model Penal Code are copyright by The American Law Institute. Excerpts are reproduced with permission, not as part of a Creative Commons license.