Perspectives in Islamic Law

The Structure of the Law; The Importance of Hadith as a Source of Islamic Law; the Mughal System of Escheat and the Islamic Law of Inheritance; Sunna’s Role in Expounding Islamic Rulings and Refutation of Suspicions Cast on its Authenticity; The Shari’a; Divorce in the Islamic context; The Intricacy of Al’’Awl; Judicial System Under ‘Umar the Great; The Status of Islamic Law in Nigeria; Muslim Family Law in South Asia; The Development of Muslim Law in Sri Lanka; The Supremacy of Shari’at Law in Islamic Society; and Secularization of Islamic Law and Institutions in Turkey: A Socio-historic Analysis etc. are the contents of this book. Scholars of Religion, Philosophy, Sociology and Comparative Law will find this book most informative and useful.