Tahir Mahmood
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The book is a new edition, thoroughly revised and overhauled, of the author`s thematic memoirs first published over a decade earlier.
Having lived his entire life through the labyrinths of religion and law, the author offers a candid account of his sweet and sour experiences - from the beginning till date - with people, places, issues and matters relating to these twin social control disciplines. Containing a fearless description of his lifelong observations at ...
This is a critical study of India’s family laws which are based on principles of Hindu law. Modern India’s family and succession laws are constituted by the personal laws of the Hindus. They are the personal law, largely reformed and codified, of four major religious communities of India—the Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs. The work offers a critical study of the provision of the Hindu personal law in a historical, constitutional and human ...
The volume provides discussions of varied issues of constitutional and socio-legal significance. It views the place of religion in political and legal systems of India and other countries, legal parameters of religious freedoms, rights and problems of minorities, the legal status and rights of women, communal harmony and peaceful existence, Islamic law and resolution of religious disputes by the courts. With reference to the situation in India and concepts of ...
Muslims are the second largest religious community of India and therefore their personal law constitutes an important chapter of the Nation's legal system.
This book offers a comprehensive study of the entire gamut of Muslim law as applicable in India. Extensive critiques of each of the legislative enactments of India in this sphere are followed by a lucid exposition of the principles of uncodified Muslim law in their true spirit and in conformity with the ...
This is a study, not of Muslim law, but of the law of India relating to its Muslim citizens; and its focus is on the present-day statutory laws. All the statutory laws and provisions of India relating to, or having a bearing on, the Muslims--their religious affairs, religious and academic institutions and personal laws--have been covered in the book. These have been studied in their historical setting and analysed with reference to their position under the ...
This book, originally published in 1965, was written by Fyzee as a companion volume to his erudite and authoritative Outlines of Muhammadan Law. Since then it has been a source book for the Indo-Anglican interpretation of Muslim law. This long awaited revised edition makes available in one volume the original forty-three cases along with the author's commentary and extracts from judgements, as well as ninety-three new cases relating to significant developments ...
This classic work, an authoritative treatise on Islamic law, examines the law in its social, historical, and political context. In the original book Fyzee lucidly explains, apart from the extant law, its background, sources, history, development, and complexities. The fifth edition, revised and updated by Tahir Mahmood, traces changes and modifications that have taken place in the law since the publication of the fourth edition in 1974. It highlights more than ...