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Volume 15 - 2001

Book Reviews

Specific Applications: Commercial Transactions and Financing

Islamic Banking and Interest: A Study of the Prohibition of Riba and its Contemporary Interpretation (Vol. 2: Studies in Islamic Law and Society). By Abdullah Saeed. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers1996. Pp. 169. Price not available. ISBN: 9-004-10565-4.

Specific Applications: Property and Inheritance

The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent: The Peasants' Loss of Property Rights as Interpreted in the Hanafite Literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman Period. By Baber Johansen. London and New York: Croom Helm, Methuen1988. Pp. 143. Price not available. ISBN: 0-709-91496-2.

Studies in Qur’an and Hadith: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance. By David S. Powers. Berkeley: University of California Press1986. Pp. xiii, 263. Paper. ISBN: 0-520-05558-6.

Specific Applications: Family Law and the Role of Women

Divorce in the Libyan Family: A Study Based on the Sijills of the Shari'ah Courts of Ajdabiyya and Kufra. By Aharon Layish. New York: New York University Press1991. Pp. xxiii, 236. Price not available. ISBN: 0-814-75053-2.

Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World. Edited by Mahnaz Afkhami. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press1995. Price not available. ISBN: 0-815-62667-3.

The Status of Women Under Islamic Law and Under Modern Islamic Legislation. By Jamal J. Nasir. Boston and London: Graham and Trotman1990. Pp. vii, 151. Price not available. ISBN: 1-853-33281-X.

In the House of the Law. Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine. By Judith E. Tucker. Berkeley: University of California Press1998. Pp. xi, 221. Price not available. ISBN: 0-520-21039-5. Paper. ISBN: 0-520-22474-4.

In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey. By Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. New York: Doubleday1998. Pp. 430. Price not available. ISBN: 0-385-47518-7.

Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law. By Ziba Mir-Hosseini. New York and London: I.B. Tauris1997. Pp. 245. Paper. Price not available. ISBN: 1-860-64182-2.

Qur'an and Woman: Rereading The Sacred Text From a Woman's Perspective. By Amina Wadud. New York: Oxford University Press1999. Pp. 118. $11.95. ISBN: 0-195-12836-2.

The Rights of Women in Islam: An Authentic Approach. By Haifaa A. Jawad. New York: St. Martin's Press1998. Pp. ix, 150. Price not available. ISBN: 0-312-21351-4.

The Veil and The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam. By Fatima Mernissi. Translated by Mary Jo Lakeland. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley1991. Pp. xi, 228. Paper. Price not available. ISBN: 0-201-63221-7.

Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America. Edited by Gisela Webb. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press2000). Pp. xxv, 295. Price not available. ISBN 0-815-62851-X Paper. ISBN: 0-815-62852-8.

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. By Sylviane A. Diouf. New York and London: New York University Press1998. Pp. 254. Price not available. ISBN: 0-814-71905-8.

Specific Applications: Human Rights

Freedom, Modernity, and Islam: Towards a Creative Synthesis. By Richard K. Khuri. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press1997. Pp. 480. $59.95. ISBN: 0-815-62698-3.

Human Rights and Democracy: The Role of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt. Edited by Kevin Boyle and Adel Omar Sherif. Boston, London and The Hague: Kluwer Law International, CEVIEL Book Series No. 3 1996. Pp. 370. Price not available. ISBN: 9-041-10288-4.

Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics. By Ann Elizabeth Mayer. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press3d ed. 1999. Pp. 260. Price not available. ISBN: 0-813-33564-7. Paper. $26.00. ISBN: 0-813-33504-3.

Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives in Muslim Communities

Islam in America. By Jane I. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press1999. Pp. xvi, 251. Price not available. ISBN: 0-231-10966-0.

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Volume 15 - 2001

Book Reviews

Specific Applications: Commercial Transactions and Financing

Specific Applications: Property and Inheritance

Specific Applications: Family Law and the Role of Women

Specific Applications: Human Rights

Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives in Muslim Communities