Doubt in Islamic Law: A History of Legal Maxims, Interpretation, and Islamic Criminal Law al-mahalli Dimensions - 2 1/4" x

Dimensions - 2 1/4" x 1 1/2"

written when Socrates was still alive

Cass Sunstein and James McPherson discuss Dred Scott v

Mark Tushnet and Jeremy Waldron exchange views on Marbury v

and for those interested in the intellectual background of the Arab world

Doubt in Islamic Law: A History of Legal Maxims, Interpretation, and Islamic Criminal Law al-mahalli Dimensions - 2 1/4" xThis book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt. Intisar A. Rabb calls into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law. Despite its contemporary popularity, that