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A modern approach to Islam: This book posits a re-interpretation of Islamic jurisprudence and re-discovery of original Islamic philosophy. In this book, Fyzee argues that modern reforms can be incorporated in Islamic law without compromising on the "essential spirit of Islam". [5] [6] Cases in the Muhammadan law of India and Pakistan
He was the leading Western scholar in the areas of Islamic law and hadith studies, whose Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence (1950) is still considered a centrally important work on the subject. The author of many articles in the first and second editions of the Encyclopaedia of Islam , Schacht also co-edited the second edition of The Legacy of ...
Key features of Anglo-Muhammadan law included the recognition of Islamic personal laws in matters such as marriage, inheritance, and family relations. Islamic legal scholars and judges (Qazis) were often involved in the administration of this legal system. [3] A notable case that involved the application of Anglo-Muhammadan law is the Shah Bano ...
Syed Ameer Ali Order of the Star of India [5] (6 April 1849 – 3 August 1928) was an Indian jurist, a prominent political leader, and author of a number of influential books on Muslim history and the modern development of Islam.
Al-Hidayah fi Sharh Bidayat al-Mubtadi (d. 593 AH/1197 CE) (Arabic: الهداية في شرح بداية المبتدي, al-Hidāyah fī Sharḥ Bidāyat al-Mubtadī), commonly referred to as al-Hidayah (lit. "the guidance", also spelled Hedaya [1]), is a 12th-century legal manual by Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani, which is considered to be one of the most influential compendium of Hanafi ...
Fatawa-e-Alamgiri was the work of many prominent scholars from different parts of the world, including Hejaz, principally from the Hanafi school. In order to compile Fatawa-e-Alamgiri, emperor Aurangzeb gathered 500 experts in Islamic jurisprudence, 300 from South Asia, 100 from Iraq and 100 from the Hejaz.
Hadith studies is the academic study of hadith (i.e., what most Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as transmitted through chains of narrators). [1]
Sebeos (fl. 651), Armenian historian, documented in his History the rise of Muhammad and the early Muslim conquests.; Joannis Damasceni (c. 676–749), official of the Caliph at Damascus, later a Syrian monk, Doctor of the Church, his Peri Aireseon [Concerning Heresies] [t], its chapter 100 being "Heresy of the Ishmailites" (attribution questioned).