Islamic Law and Legal Commentary: Building a Basic Collection in English

Prepared for the Annual Meeting program D6 titled Publicizing Faith or Privatizing Law?

Researching Religious Arbitration and Private Dispute Settlement

Prepared by Marylin J. Raisch, Georgetown Law Library, in consultation with Mr. Issam Saliba, Specialist in Islamic

Law, Law Library of Congress

American Association of Law Libraries, Baltimore, MD July 16, 2018 10:00 a.m.

Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

• The Message of the Quran:

https://ia802504.us.archive.org/31/items/TheMessageOfTheQuran_20140419/55877864-

54484011-Message-of-Quran-Muhammad-Asad-Islam-Translation.pdf

• The Holy Quran Five Volume Commentary in English: https://www.alislam.org/quran/five-vol/

Hadith

• Sahih Al Bukhari: https://sunnah.com/bukhari

• Sahih Muslim: https://sunnah.com/muslim

• Sunan Abu Dawud: https://sunnah.com/abudawud

ABC International Group; Chicago, IL : Distributed by Kazi Publications, 1996.

Monographic Studies (Books)

• Abdel Haleem. Islamic History and Law: From the 4th to the 11th Century and Beyond.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY; Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

• Abubaka, Adamu. Islamic Law Practice and Procedure in Nigerian Courts. Revis second. Lagos,

Nigeria: Malthouse Press, 2017.

• Al-Azem, Talal. Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition: Ibn

Qualubugha's Commentary on the Compendium of Quduri. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016.

• Ali, Shadeen Sardar. Modern Challenges to Islamic Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University

Press, 2016.

Farnham, Surrey, UK, England: Ashgate, 2014.

• Bhala, Raj. Understanding Islamic Law (Shar'a). Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic

Press, 2016.

• Bowen, John R. On British Islam: Religion, Law, and Everyday Practice in Shari’a Councils.

Princeton, N.J; Oxford; Princeton University Press, 2016.

• Bsoul, Labeeb Ahmed. Formation of the Islamic Jurisprudence: From the Time of the Prophet

Muhammad to the 4th Century. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY; Palgrave

Macmillan, 2016.

• Burak, Guy. The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Ḥanafī School in the Early Modern

Ottoman Empire. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Publishing, 2017.

• Farrar, Salim and Ghena Krayem. Accommodating Muslims under Common Law: a Comparative

Analysis. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.

• Hallaq, Wael B. The Formation of Islamic Law. Vol. 27. London, [England]; New York, New York;

Routledge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315239606.

• Hefner, Robert W., 1952. Shari a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana

University Press, 2016.

• Hernandez, Rebecca Skreslet, [ Oxford Scholarship Online]. The Legal Thought of Jalal Al-Din Al-

Suyuti: Authority and Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2017.

https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805939.001.0001.

NY; Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

• Jahangir, Junaid, Hussein Abdullatif, and Scott Alan Kugle 1969. Islamic Law and Muslim Same-

• Jamal, Arif A. Islam, Law and the Modern State: (Re)Imagining Liberal Theory in Muslim Contexts.

Abingdon, Oxon [UK]; New York, NY; Routledge, 2018.

York; I.B.Tauris, 2016..

• Mayer, Ann Elizabeth. Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics. 5th ed. New York:

London: New York University Press, 2015.

• Olsson, Susanne. Minority Jurisprudence in Islam: Muslim Communities in the West. Vol. 10; 10.;

London: I.B. Tauris, 2016.

• Peters, Rudolph, Maaike van Berkel, Léon Buskens, and Petra Sijpesteijn. Legal Documents as

Sources for the History of Muslim Societies: Studies in Honour of Rudolph Peters. Vol. 42.

Leiden: Brill, 2017.

• Qarāfī, Aḥmad ibn Idrīs, and Mohammad H. Fadel. The Criterion for Distinguishing Legal

ḍī Waʼl-Imām. New Haven: Yale University

Press, 2017.

• Salaymeh, Lena. The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

• Sharia Councils and Muslim Women in Britain: Rethinking the Role of Power and Authority. Vol.

22. Leiden; Boston; Brill, 2017.

• Shavit, Uriya. Shari'a and Muslim Minorities: the wasati and salafi Approaches to fiqh al-

aqalliyyat al-Muslima. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015.

• Sodiq, Yushau. A History of the Application of Islamic Law in Nigeria. Cham Switzerland: Palgrave

Macmillan, 2017.

• Sonneveld, Nadia, and Monika Lindbekk. Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative

Study of Discourse and Practice. Vol. 15. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

• Zee, Machteld. Choosing Sharia? Multiculturalism, Islamic Fundamentalism and Sharia Councils.

The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, 2016.

Pluralisms in England, Turkey, and Pakistan. London, [England]; New York, New York; Routledge,

2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315248509.

Law. Vol. 9. Cham: Springer, 2017.

• Zahalka, Iyad. Shari’a in the Modern Era: Muslim Minority Jurisprudence. Cambridge, United

Journals Covering Islamic Law in General

Presented here is a separate section on journals, as there are several devoted to Islamic law. Searches

on Google Scholar using the phrase Islamic law should be filtered by year of publication or addition of

narrower terms; for a collection of classic articles on the topical areas of Islamic family law and

commercial law, please see the 2009 version of this guide.

• Arab law quarterly. [London]: Lloyd's of London Press, 1985.

• Islamic Law and Society, Leiden, the Netherlands: E.J. Brill, [1994- ].

• Journal of Islamic and comparative law. Zaria, Nigeria: Centre of Islamic Legal Studies, Faculty of

Law, Ahmadu Bello University, 1967- .

• The journal of Islamic law. Takoma Park, Md.: Institute for Intercultural Relations, 2004- .

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

Note: a large volume of articles in scholarly journals address issues in Islamic law from the philosophical

to very specific topics tailored to the many schools and jurisdictions. "Islamic law" works well even as a

broad search term. Therefore, only a recent sample and book of collected essays is cited below.

• Abu-Odeh, Lama. “Egypt's New Constitution: The Islamist Difference” in Constitutional

Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival: The Challenges (S. Mancini and M. Rosenfeld, eds).

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

• Lowry, Joseph E., "Reading the Qur'an as a Law Book" (2015). Occasional Papers. Paper 13.

• Peters, Rudolph and P. J. Bearman, eds. Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law. Farnham,

Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2014. (Issued now through Routledge).

• Library of Congress Classification Outline- Class K, Law,

https://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco/lcco_k.pdf

• Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS, U of London, with reading lists and links for

study of Islamic law.

• Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. Gudrun Krämer ... [et al.]. 3d ed. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2007-.

Available electronically through Brill Online Reference Works.

• Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Program - note here the publications section. The program is

developing a resource, SHARIASource, a database of texts with commentary, and has a blog up

currently with reports of recent scholarship.

• Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies (subscription required)

• List of Islamic countries on World Legal Information Institute pages

• Muslim and mixed jurisdictions, World Legal systems, University of Ottawa

• Law Library of Congress, Islamic Law Bibliography, 2003-2014,

https://www.loc.gov/law/help/islamic-law-bibliography/index.php

• Islamic Law Guides at Academic Law Libraries:

http://lawresearchguides.cwru.edu/c.php?g=819978&p=5851791

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