Contents: Introduction. Part I Theoretical Perspectives on the Practical Application of Islamic Law: From jurists' law to statute law or what happens when the Shari'a is codified, Rudolph Peters; The compatibility dialectic: mediating the legitimate coexistence of Islamic law and state law, Abdullahi Ahmed An-NaÊ&ra"im; ShariÊ&ra"a and state in the modern Muslim Middle East, Nathan J. Brown. Part II Empirical Analyses of the Practical Application of Islamic Law: ShariÊ&ra"a in the politics of Saudi Arabia, Frank E. Vogel; Islamic law in contemporary South Asia, Gregory C. Kozlowski; The Islamic legal system in Indonesia, Mark E. Cammack and R. Michael Feener; Expanding a formal role for Islamic law in the Indonesian legal system: the case of Mu'amalat, Alfitri; Islamic law as customary law: the changing perspective in Nigeria, A.

A. Oba; Secular law and the emergence of unofficial Turkish Islamic law, Ihsan Yilmaz. Part III Islamic Family and Personal Status Laws in Practice: Family law & reform in Morocco - the Mudawana: modernist Islam and women's rights in the code of personal status, Laura A. Weingartner; Protecting Muslim women against abuse of polygamy in Malaysia: legal perspective, Zaleha Kamaruddin and Raihanah Abdullah; Islamic law and gender equality - could there be a common ground? A study of divorce and polygamy in Sharia law and contemporary legislation in Tunisia and Egypt, Amira Mashhour; The legal impediments to the application of Islamic family law in the Philippines, Anshari P. Ali. Part IV Islamic Criminal Law in Practice: Judicial practice in Islamic criminal law in Nigeria - a tentative overview, Gunnar J. Weimann; Punishment in Islamic law: a critique of the Hudud Bill of Kelantan, Malaysia, Mohammad Hashim Kamali; Her honor: an Islamic critique of the rape laws of Pakistan from a woman-sensitive perspective, Asifa Quraishi; The 2006 Women Protection Act of Pakistan: an analysis, Niaz A. Shah.

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