Outlines of Muhammadan - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195691695 ISBN 13: 9780195691696

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 three decades of developments in the statutory as well as case law, without disturbing the framework and intellectual design of the original book. While remaining primarily an examination of Muslim law as it is administered in India, the book includes, where relevant, references to the legal position in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Muslim countries in West Asia and Africa. All major topics including marriage and its dissolution, dower and conjugal rights, parentage and guardianship, legitimacy, maintenance, gifts, wakfs, as well as the Sunni and Shia laws of inheritance have been clearly and systematically covered.

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About the Author

Asaf Fyzee is an outstanding scholar of Islamic law who received from the Government of India, the Padma Bhushan in recognition of his contribution to Islamic Jurisprudence. Tahir Mahmood Tahir Mahmood is Jurist-Member at the Law Commission of India, New Delhi and Founder-Chairman of the Amity University of Advanced Legal Studies, New Delhi.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195691695
• ISBN 13: 9780195691696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 414
• Editor: Fyzee Asaf A.A., Mahmood Tahir