Contents: Introduction. Part I Islamic Family Law: Marriage in Islamic law: the modernist viewpoints, Majid Khadduri; Invalid and void marriages in Hanafi law, J.N.D. Anderson; Equality (kafÄ'ah) in the Muslim law of marriage, Farhat J. Ziadeh; Mahr: legal obligation or rightful demand?, Mona Siddiqui; Marriage-guardianship and minor's marriage at Islamic law, Lucy Carroll; Polygamy in traditional and contemporary Islamic law, Doreen Hinchcliffe; Women and divorce: the position of the SharÄ«Ê»ah, Abdul-Fatah Makinde ʼKola; A critical appraisal of 'triple divorce' in Islamic law, Nehaluddin Ahmad; TafwīḠal-ṬalÄq: transferring the right to divorce to the wife, Fareeha Khan; A husband's authority: emerging formulations in Muslim family laws, Lynn Welchman. Part II Islamic Law of Succession: The role of pre-Islamic customs in the Islamic law of succession, M. Habibur Rahman; The Islamic inheritance system: a socio-historical approach, David S.

Powers; The Qur'anic law of inheritance, Richard Kimber; Representational succession in contemporary Islamic law, N.J. Coulson. Part III Islamic Law of Financial Transactions: Negotiating contracts in Islamic and Middle Eastern laws, Mahdi Zahraa; Contracts in Islamic law: the principles of commutative justice and liberality, Hussein Hassan; The concept of musharakah and its application as an Islamic method of financing, Muhammad Taqi Usmani; Islamic laws on riba (interest) and their economic implications, M. Siddieq Noorzoy; The Islamic law of real security, Nicholas H.D. Foster. Part IV Islamic Criminal Law: Islamic criminal law and procedure: religious fundamentalism v.

modern law, Matthew Lippman; The concept of ḥadd in Islamic law, Fazlur Rahman; Effective legal representation in 'Sharīʻah' courts as a means of addressing human rights concerns in the Islamic criminal justice system of Muslim states, Mashood A. Baderin. Part V Islamic Judicial Procedure: Muslim procedure and evidence, J.N.D. Anders.