Law

LAMA 001 Islamic Law of Inheritance (A New Approach) by Muhammad Mustafa Khan.

HB 218 pp. $10.00

 

LAKB 002 Islamic Jurisprudence and the Rule of Necessity and Need by Dr. M. Muslehuddin.

A dissertation which originally appeared in Islamic Studies.

PB 69 pp. $3.00

 

LAIP 003 Islamic Law: Concept and Codification by Amin Ahsan Aslahi tr. S.A. Rauf.

Collection of lectures.

PB 119 pp. $3.00

 

LAIP 004 Concept of Civil Liability in Islam and the Law of Torts by Dr. M. Musleh-ud-Din.

The result of a comparative study of Islamic law and the law of torts, this book gives a general exposition of the principles of civil liability in Islamic law.

PB 89 pp. $3.00

 

LAIP 005 Everyday Fiqh, Vol. I & II by Muhammad Yusuf Islahi tr. Abdul Aziz Kamal.

Follows the main Hanafite viewpoint on Fiqh but includes footnotes covering the views of other schools of Fiqh.

HB 272, 252 pp. $12.50

 

LAIR 006 Analogical Reasoning in Islamic Jurisprudence (A Study in the Juridical Principle of Qiyas) by Ahmad Hasan.

PB 489 pp. $14.00

 

LAIR 007 The Early Development of Islamic Jurisprudence by Ahmad Hasan.

This book attempts to survey briefly the origin, development and application of the four well-known "roots" of Islamic law, namely the Qur'an, Sunnah, Ijma and Qiyas.

HB 234 pp. $12.00

 

LAMA 008 A Sunni Shafi'i Law Code tr. Anwar Ahmad Qadri.

Translation of Mukhtasar fil-Risalah or Taqrib by Abu Shuja Isfahani (d. 500 H) of the Sunni Shafi'i school of Islamic law.

HB 156 pp. $4.00

 

LAMA 009 A Book of Qur'anic Laws tr. Muhammad Valibhai Merchant.

Valibhai Merchant compiles an exhaustive treatise with full Qur'anic text on: the Doctrine on the Unity of God, Prayers and Alms, Fasts, Hajj, Marriage, and more.

PB 206 pp. $3.00

 

LAIP 010 Philosophy of Islamic Law and the Orientalists: A Comparative Study of Islamic Legal System by Dr. M. Muslehuddin.

Discusses the orthodox, modernist and orientalist perspectives of Islamic law.

HB 302 pp. $5.00

 

LAMA 011 A Learner's Guide to The Division of Inheritance (Hanafi Fiqh) by Bashir Ahmad Bagvi.

The division of inheritance under divine rule is an important part of Huquq-ul-Ibad (duties and obligations towards mankind).

PB 40 pp. $3.00

 

LAKZ 012 The Essential Hanafi Handbook of Fiqh by Maulana Yusuf Talal Ali Al-Amriki.

A Translation of Qazi Thanaa Ullah's Ma La Budda Minhu.

PB 200 pp. $6.00

 

LAKZ 013 The Islamic Shari'ah and The Muslims by Al-Shaikh 'Abdul Muhsin bin Hamd al-Abbad tr. M. Saeed Siddiqi.

Article written by a vice chancellor of Medina University.

PB 32 pp. $3.00

 

LAKZ 014 A Short Handbook of Fiqh by M. Tayyib Bakhsh Al-Budayuni.

A guide for helping one perform everyday practices of a Muslim.

PB 82 pp. $2.00

 

LAKZ 015 The Family Laws of Islam by M. Iqbal Siddiqi.

Deals not only with the Islamic law of marriage but also other subjects such as dower, dowry and divorce.

HB 278 pp. $7.50

 

LAKZ 016 The Penal Law of Islam by M. Iqbal Siddiqi.

Discusses crime and punishment under Islamic law with Qur'anic citations.

HB 191 pp. $7.00

 

LAIP 017 Judicial System of Islam: Its Origin and Development by Dr. M. Muslehuddin.

PB 107 pp. $2.50

 

LAKB 018 The Doctrine of Ijma' in Islam: A Study of the Juridical Principle of Consensus by Ahmad Hasan.

HB 274 pp. $9.00

 

LAIA 019 Fundamentals of Ijtehad by Maulana Taqi Amini.

Islamic law has been stagnating for quite some time for want of interpretative efforts on the part of the jurists. The author categorically asserts that there is no substance in the claim that the doors of Ijtehad are closed and operative orders could not validly be changed to suit the contemporary conditions.

HB 220 pp. $9.00

 

LAIP 020 Juristic Differences and How to Resolve Them in an Islamic State by Amin Ahsan Islahi tr. S.A. Rauf.

PB 158 pp. $3.00

 

LAIR 021 Islamic Legal Philosophy by Muhammad Khalid Masud.

A study of the famous Maliki jurist Abu Ishaq Al-Shatibi's life and thought.

PB 357 pp. $10.00

 

LAIP 022 Islamic Law and Its Introduction in Pakistan by S. Abul A'la Maududi.

Translation of two speeches delivered by the eminent scholar in 1948 on the real nature of Islamic law and necessary steps required for implementation in Pakistan.

PB 76 pp. $3.00

 

LAIP 023 Islamic Law and Social Change by Dr. M. Muslehuddin.

Discusses the relationship between Islamic law and society and how the law must always direct society.

PB 46 pp. $3.00

 

LAMA 024 Allama Iqbal and the Authority to Interpret Shariah in a Modern Islamic State by Dr. Muhammad Yusuf Guraya.

Consideration of Iqbal's conception of legislature in the modern Islamic state of Pakistan.

PB 34 pp. $3.00

 

LAIP 025 Islamic Law and Constitution by S. Abul A'la Maududi tr. Khurshid Ahmad.

Translation of Maududi's investigation into aspects of Islamic law and political and constitutional thought in Islam.

HB 413 pp. $12.00

 

LAIP 026 First Principles of the Islamic State by S. Abul A'la Maududi tr. & ed. Khurshid Ahmad.

Translation of the address Maududi made in Karachi advocating the adoption of an Islamic constitution in 1952.

PB 73 pp. $3.00

 

LAMA 027 The First Written Constitution in the World tr. Hamidullah.

An important document of the time of the Prophet.

PB 76 pp. $3.00

 

LAKB 028 Durr-ul-Mukhtar by Muhammad Ala-ud-din Haskafi: A Commentary on the Tanvirul Absar of Muhammad Bin Abdallah Tamartashi tr. B.M. Dayal.

HB 456 pp. $16.00

 

LAKB 029 The Urgency of Ijtihad by Al-Haj Moinuddin Ahmed.

This eloquent book is a well-documented and assiduously built thesis to stir up Muslims' imagination, to awaken them from a state of indolence and to put them on the right track.

HB 141 pp. $4.50

 

LADT 030 The Principles of State and Government in Islam by Muhammad Asad.

This book represents a development of the ideas first set forth by the author in Islamic Constitution-Making, which was published in English and Urdu under the auspices of the Government of the Punjab in March, 1948.

HB 107 pp. $14.00

 

LADT 031 The Law of Ours and Other Essays by Muhammad Asad.

The thesis propounded in this book is based on several essays published in Lahore between September 1946 and February 1947.

HB 195 pp. $22.00

 

LAIR 032 Judicial System in Islam by Ghulam Murtaza Asad.

This book attempts to explain and discuss the modus operandi of the Qadi court, deriving from, and relying upon, the Qur'anic verses, the hadith, and the discourses of the fuqaha on the subject.

PB 138 pp. $10.00

 

LAII 033 Islamic System of Justice by Adbul Qader Oudah Shaheed tr. S.M. Hasnain.

PB 110 pp. $2.50

 

LAMA 034 Islamic Jurisprudence in the Modern World by M. Yusuf Guraya.

The crucial issue faced by the modern Muslim states is the definition of the Shariah. This book addresses the reformation of the principles of the Islamic jurisprudence and reinterpretation of the Shariah.

HB 204 pp. $5.00

 

LAII 035 Introduction to Islamic Law by A.D. Ajijola.

PB 410 pp. $8.00

 

LAII 036 Criminal Law of Islam by Abdul Qader Oudah Shaheed tr. S. Zakir Aijaz.

PB Vol. I 368 pp. $8.00

PB Vol. II 368 pp. $8.00

PB Vol. III 196 pp. $6.00

 

LARB 037 Muslim Jurisprudence and the Qur'anic Law of Crimes by Mir Walliullah.

HB 167 pp. $8.00

 

LAMA 038 Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence (with special reference to Muwatta Imam Malik) by M. Yusuf Guraya.

Exhaustively discusses the etymology and chronology of the term Sunnah from the earliest sources; elaborates on the technical and legal difference between Sunnah and Hadith.

HB 130 pp. $5.00

 

LAIF 039 Shari'ah: The Way of God by Khurram Murad.

Explains what the Shari'ah means to Muslims and discusses some important related problems.

PB 24 pp. $4.00

 

LAIF 040 Shari'ah: The Way of Justice by Khurram Murad.

Presents the Shari'ah as the only full embodiment of justice; discusses the issues of women and punishment.

PB 20 pp. $4.00

 

LAKZ 041 Do's and Do Not's in Islam (Al-Halal wal Haram) by Abdur Rahman Shah.

HB 313 pp. $7.00

 

LAKZ 042 Zakat and Usher by Abdur Raahman Shad.

PB 104 pp. $3.00

 

LAKZ 043 Non-Muslims under Shari'ah (Islamic Law) by A. Rahman Doi.

PB 148 pp. $3.00

 

LAUW 541 Islamic Law and Jurisprudence ed. Nicholas Heer.

Unlike law that is legislated or decreed, Islamic law is determined by inference from the principles contained in the Qur'an and the traditions of the Prophet.

HB 244 pp. $40.00

 

LARB 542 A Code of Muslim Personal Law by T. Rehman.

HB $90.00

 

LARB 543 Shariah Ummah and Khilafah by Y.A. Hashmi.

PB $7.50

 

LAKB 544 The Muslim Law of Divorce by K.N. Ahmed.

Although the Muslim marriage is essentially a matter of contract, creating rights and obligations for the parties, there is considerable divergence of opinion, in several matters touching marriage and its dissolution, between different sects.

HB 1,154 pp. $29.95

 

LAKB 545 The Muslim Law of Inheritance by Al-Haj Muhammad Ullah.

This work treats the principles which govern the inheritance of the deceased's property among the Muslims of the Sunni Hanafi school.

HB 260 pp. $7.00

 

LAKB 546 The Administration of Justice in Islam by Al-Haj Muhammad Ullah.

Traces the development of the law beginning from the era of the Holy Prophet and continuing through the fall of the Mughal Empire in India.

HB 174 pp. $5.00

 

LAKB 547 The Muslim Law of Marriage by Al-Haj Muhammad Ullah.

This book deals with a variety of subjects relating to the Muslim marriage, such as dower, divorce, Lian, Zihar, Ila, Khula, Rajat, repudiation and restitution of conjugal rights.

HB 236 pp. $6.00

 

LAKB 548 Justice in Historical Islam by Anwar Ahmad Qadri.

This is a short historical account of the process of the Shariah law in the important field of administration of justice from the time of the Prophet down to the collapse of the Indian Mughals and the Ottomans.

HB 152 pp. $5.00

 

LAKB 549 The Schools of Islamic Jurisprudence (A Comparative Study) by Muhammad Hameedullah Khan.

HB 152 pp. $6.00

 

LAIB 550 Fiqh us-Sunnah, Vol. I-V by As-Sayed Sabiq tr. Mohammad Sa'eed Dabas & Jamal al-Din M. Zarabozo.

Volume I: Juristic positions on purification (tahara) and prayers (salah) are traced to the Qur'an and Sunnah.

Volume II: Detailed information on the intricacies of prayer, including Sunnah, Nafl, Istikhara and more.

Volume III: In depth look at the unique aspects of alms tax (zakah) and fasting (siyam).

Volume IV: Focuses on guidance of the Sunnah regarding sickness, medication, dhikr, and funerals.

Volume V: Information on Hajj and Umra.

HB 187, 156, 166, 155 & 139 pp. Complete Set $45.00

 

LAOX 801 An Introduction to Islamic Law by Joseph Schacht.

PB 312 pp. $32.00

 

LAIP 802 Fatawa Rahimiyah Vols. I, II & III by Mufti Abdur Rahim Lajpuri.

First English translation of fatwas (judgments) handed down by Mufti Abdur Rahim Lajpuri.

HB 360, 356 & 244 pp. $30.00

 

LAIB 803 Laws of Marriage & Divorce in Islam by Syed Abul A'ala Maududi.

PB 126 pages $8.00

 

LAIA 804 Time Changes and Islamic Law by Maulana Mohammed Taqi Amini.

It is the first ever comprehensive and authoritative study which explores the myth that Islamic law is inflexible and hence incapable of providing an effective legal system for the present day.

HB 285 pp. $14.00

 

LAIP 805 The Hedaya: Commentary on the Islamic Laws Vols. I & II tr. Charles Hamilton.

HB 727 pp. $38.00

 

LAIP 806 The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam by Yusuf Al-Qardawi.

PB 352 pp. $7.00

HB 352 pp. $11.00

 

LAII 807 Lawful Earning in Islam by S. M. Madni Abbasi.

PB 50 pp. $5.00

 

LAIP 808 Rights of Non-Muslims in Islamic State by S. Abdul A'la Maududi.

PB 32 pp. $3.00

 

LAKZ 809 Islam Forbids Intoxicants and Gambling by Muhammad Iqbal Siddiqi.

HB 160 pp. $8.00

 

LATJ 810 Muslim Jurisprudence and the Qur'anic Law of Crimes by Mir Waliullah.

HB 167 pp. $4.00

 

LAMI 811 Punishment in Islamic Law: A Comparative Study by Mohamad El-Awa.

HB 147 pp. $6.00

 

LAMA 812 Landmarks of Jihad by M. M. Qureshi.

The book deals with the theory and practice of Jihad. In an essay on the Law of Jihad, the author discusses the principle of Islamic warfare.

HB 367 pp. $12.00

 

LAID 813 Peculiar Personal Problems of Men and Women by Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi.

PB 40 pp. $3.00

 

LACR 814 Man Made Law/Divine Law by A. A. Maududi.

PB 15 pp. $3.00

 

LAIP 815 Polygamy in Islam (A Scientific Analysis) by Abu Obaidah Nizamuddin.

PB 16 pp. $3.00

 

LAMA 816 Bahishti Zewar by Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi.

HB 480 pp. $15.00

 

LAUB 817 Mahommedan Law compiled from authorities in the Original Arabic by Syed Amer Ali.

Based on Original sources of the Shariat, Syed Ameer Ali's monumental work on Muslim personal law has been widely acclaimed all over the world as an authoritative treatise.

Volume I The law relating to Gifts, Wakfs, Wills, Pre-emption and Bailment.

Volume II The Law Relating to Succession and Status

HB 818 pp. & 600 pp. $75.00

 

LAIS 818 Zakat by Abdul Rehman Ansari.

The religious tax of Islam. Brief guidelines.

PB 32 pp. $3.00

 

LACR 819 Polygamy in Islamic Law by Gamal A. Badawi.

PB 17 pp. $3.00

 

LAKB 820 The Sharia Rules for Marriage by Habeeba Malik

PB 30 pp. $3.00

 

LAII 821 Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence by Taha Jabir al'Alwani.

Usul al Fiqh is a science which is deeply embedded in the Islamic experience and one which, thanks to its methods and concerns, helped generate an empirical trend in Muslim culture, in turn benefiting Western Thinking.

PB 95 pp. $8.00

 

LAKP 822 Islam and Public Law ed. by Chibli Mallat.

This book groups essays which represent the most advanced scholarship on public law in the world of Islam.

HB 228 pp. $105.00

 

LAKP 823 Islamic Family Law ed. by Chibli Mallat & Jane Connors.

HB 350 pp. $72.00

 

LAKP 824 Islamic Law Finance ed. by Cibli Mallat.

HB 170 pp. $72.00

 

LAKP 825 The Islamic Law of Personal Status. by Jamal J. Nasir.

PB 384 pp. $64.00

 

LAKP 826 The Status of Women Under Islamic Law and Under Modern Islamic Legislation by Jamal J. Nasir.

This new book deals specially with the legal rights and obligations of women under the Shari'a and under modern Arab Islamic legislation.

HB 176 pp. $65.00

 

LAKP 827 The Marriage Contract in Islamic law (in the Shari'ah and Personal Status Laws of Egypt and Morocco) by Dawoud Sudqi El Alami.

This book is an analysis of the contract of marriage according to the Islamic Shari'ah and of the way in which this is applied in the Personal Status Laws of two modern Islamic states.

HB 224 pp. $82.00

 

LAKP 828 The Theory of Contracts in Islamic Law by Susan Rayner.

A Comparative Analysis with particular reference to modern legislation in Kuwait, Bahrain and the U.A.E.

HB 464 pp. $120.00

 

LAKP 829 Unlawful Gain and Legitimate Profit in Islamic Law by Nabil A. Saleh.

Than ban on taking interest (riba) and the rejection of chance contracts (gharar) are two features of an Islamic law of contract which contrast with the secular man-made legal systems of the West. This book is concerned with these two Islamic Prohibitory rules and with the interest-free banking system which has developed there from.

HB 176 pp. $100.00

 

LAKB 830 The Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (According to The Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hambali Schools. by Abdur Rahman.

Originally published as "The Principles of Muhammadan Jurisprudence." The ideas of Islamic jurists are accurately representated in their own language and same time it is endeavored to make their meaning clear throughout the book.

HB 387 pp. $12.00

 

LANA 831 Muslim Personal Law: An Exposition by Syed Athar Husain.

In this work the author has dealt with the subjects of marriage, maintenance, divorce, status of women, inheritance and polygamy at some length.

HB 230 pp. $8.00

 

LAIT 832 Reliance of the Traveller by Ahmad ibn al-Naqib al-Misri tr. Noah Keller

The classic manual of Islamic sacred law Umdat al-Salik in Arabic with facing English Text, Commentary and Appendices.

HB 1254 pp. $29.95

 

LATA 833 Shariah the Islamic Law A. Rahman I. Doi

PB 487 pp. $17.50

 

LATA 834 Shariah in the 15th Century of Hijra A. Rahman I. Doi.

The Problems and prospects of the Islamic Law.

PB 62 pp. $2.50

 

LATA 835 Al-Dhabh G. M. Khan

Slaying animals the Islamic Way.

PB 61 pp. $3.75

 

LATA 836 Why Two Women Witnesses Shamshad M. Khan.

A short essay on the Qur'anic Injunction regarding two women witnesses, supported by scientific evidence.

PB 20 pp. $2.50

 

LAKB 837 Shah Bano Judgement in Islamic Perspective (A Socio-Legal Study) by Saleem Akhtar.

This is the only comprehensive work specially devoted to the Shah Bano Judgement. The present study is a modest attempt to analyze the current problem of Maintenance of wives and divorced wives under Muslim Law, Statuary Laws and Practice of the Courts in India

HB 445 pp. $20.00

 

LAIT 838 The Al-Shafi's Risala tr. M. Khadduri.

This book written by the founder of one of the four Sunni schools of law that Islamic jurisprudence found its most complete and lasting systematization.

HB $24.95

 

LAIT 839 Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence by M. Hashim Kamali.

This book offers the only detailed presentation available in English of the theory of Muslim law (usul al-fiqh). Written as a university textbook, Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence avoids the use of unnessary technical expressions and endeavors to use Western legal terms wherever these are appropriate, while remaining close to the Arabic source.

PB $24.95

LASU 840 Al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam by Imam al-Nawawi (died 676/1277) tr. by Nuh Ha Mim Keller.

Al-Maaqasid: ma yajib ma'rifatuh min al-Din (Objectives: what is necessary to know of the religion) is a synopsis of Shari'ah. It has 7 sections: Fundamentals of the religion, Purification, Prayer, Zakah, Fasting, Pilgrimage, and Virtues. The translation fills out the classic text with explanation notes. Transliteration and Arabic texts of the supplications; and dhikr are provided.

PB 148 pp. $11.95

 

LADD 841 Divorce In Mohammedan Law (The Law of "Triple Divorce") by Firasat Ali & Furqan Ahmad.

The author examines and expounds in detail the spiritual situation in his own country, Iran, as well as in the Arab world India and Pakistan, and shows how in these countries there is a profound struggle between the Islamic tradition and Western ideologies and philosophical currents such as Marxism, evolutionism and existentialism.

HB 161 pp. $15.00

 

LAIF 842 Outlines of Islamic Jurisprudence (Islamic Law in a Nutshell) by Isam Ghanem.

PB 110 pp. $6.00

 

LAUT 843 Chapters on Marriage and Divorce: Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh tr. by Susan Spectorsky

PB 288 pp. $19.95

 

LAII 844 Islamic Legal Theory and The Orientalists by Syed Abul Hassan Najmee

HB 180 pp. $10.00

 

LADT 845 The Laws of Marriage in Islam by Sheikh Muhammad Rif'at Uthman

PB 95 pp. $15.00

LAKB 846 Death and Inheritance: The Islamic Way by Muhammad Abdul Hai Arifi tr. Muhammad Shameem

A handbook of rules pertaining to the deceased. It contains indispensable rules and basic information about the teaching of the Holy Prophet when death approaches near, when it takes place and what to be done after death. Rules for distribution of inheritance.

HB 300 pp. $12.00

 

LAIT 847 On Schacht’s Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence by M. Mustafa Al-Azmi

This in-depth study, carried out by one of Islam’s leading scholars, presents a detailed analysis and critique of the classic Orientalist work, Schachts’ Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence.

PB 237 pp.  $26.95

 

LACR 848 A Handbook of Halal & Haraam Products Volume II by Zaheer Uddin.

This book lists more than 6,000 items and includes information which will help and facilitate in following Islamic dietary laws. The items are in addition to listed in volume I.

PB 275 pp. $8.95

 

LACR 849 A Handbook of Halal & Haraam Products Volume I by Zaheer Uddin.

The book lists more than 5,000 items and includes information which will help and facilitate in following Islamic dietary laws. The items are in addition to listed in volume II.

PB 240 pp. $8.95

 

LAQP 850 Maintenance Rights of Muslim Women By M. A, Wani

This books is a very useful compilation on the subject of maintenance of Muslim divorced woman. The author has taken case to inform readers of how and what extent the fourschool of Islamic figh differ on the subject and has also given the Shia law whenever necessary.

HB 100 pp. $10.00

LAQZ 851 The Islamic Institution of Mahr by M. Afzal Wani

Mahr is a cherished right of Muslim women and a pivotal concept in Islamic Jurisprudence. The presend work deals with the subject at length.

HB 280 pp. $20.00

LAWI 852 Understanding The Four Madhhabs: The Facts about Ijtihad and Taqlid by Abdul Hakim Murad (T.J. Winters)

Why are there fourschools of Islam Law? Is it necessary for Muslims to follow them, or should we take Islam direct from the Qur’an and the Sunna? This short work outlines the answer which the great scholars of the Sharia have given to these questions.

PB 32 pp. $3.00