List Figures and Tables IX Introduction: Regulative Verses of the Quran - from Historical Trends to Contemporary Trajectories Seyed Mohammad G.S. Fatemi, Karen Bauer, Robert Gleave and Devin J. Stewart Part 1 The Quran, Ethics, and Law1 Towards a Prehistory of Islamic Law: the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Quran Holger Zellentin 2 The Place of Divine Law in the Quran's Moral Theology Nicolai Sinai 3 Quranic Morality as Quranic Law Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza 4 The Myth of the Elite Male Addressee and Its Implications for Regulative Verses Abla Hasan 5 On the Universality of the Divine Commands versus the Casuistic Interpretation of the Regulative Verses Gholamreza Aavani Part 2 The Historical Genre of Akam al-Quran 6 Legal Hermeneutics and Religious Authority in Kitab Akam al - Quran by al-Jaa al-Razi (d. 370/981) Devin J. Stewart 7 The Imami Reception of the Quran's Regulative Verses ( ayat al - Akam ) Seyed Mohammad G.S. Fatemi and Syed Wajee ul-Hasan Shah Part 3 Interpretation of Regulative Verses8 ayat al - Akam in Early Ibai Thought Nora K.
Schmid 9 The Irrelevance of 'Quranic Meaning': Akhbari Shii Interpretive Techniques and the Legal Verses of the Quran Robert Gleave 10 Arguments for the Conditional Variability of udud Punishments M. Ashraf Adeel 11 Metaphysical and Legal Implications of the Earliest Instance of ayat al - Akam The Prophet Muammad's Spiritual Journey in Light of the Obligatory Nature of the Night Prayer Vigil (alat al-Layl) in Surat al-Muzzammil Imranali Panjwani Part 4 Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives12 Making Sense of Obligatory Faith in the Quran Hamid Vahid 13 A Decision-Theoretic Approach to the ujjiyya of Regulative Quranic Verses Mahmoud Morvarid 14 The Existential Perspective on the Regulative Verses ( ayat al - Akam ) of the Quran Arif Abdul Hussain Part 5 Contemporary Legal and Ethical Trajectories15 Rules and Rituals in the Quran: Is There a Role for Reasons? Oliver Leaman 16 Reconstruction of Sharia through Judicial Ijtihad Inheritance Rights of Childless Widows under the Ithna Ashariyya School in Pakistan Muhammad Zubair Abbasi 17 'Do Not Prohibit the Good Things That God Has Made Lawful to You' (Q. 5:87): Ethical Vegetarianism in Islam and Beyond Sarra Tlili 18 'Clear' Verses of the Quran ( ayat al - Akam ) and Environmental Ethics Etin Anwar Index.