Islamic Law and the Common Law

Cleveland State Law Review; Wntr 1985; Vol. 34, Issue 1

(Conference on Comparative Links Between Islamic Law and the Common Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, March 1-2, 1985)

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The guilds of law in medieval legal history: an inquiry into the origins of the Inns of Court.

(reprinted with revisions from I Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaftern 233, 1984)

-- George Makdisi.

2 -

English common law and Islamic law in the Middle East and South Asia: religious influences and secularization.

-- Herbert Liebesny.

3 -

Shuf'ah: origins and modern doctrine.

-- Farhat J. Ziadeh.

4 -

Islamic law and the crime of theft: an introduction.

-- David F. Forte.

5 -

The problem of offer and acceptance: a study of implied-in-fact contracts in Islamic law and the common law.

-- Aron Zysow.

6 -

The logic of legal reasoning in religious and non-religious cultures: the case of Islamic law and the common law.

-- Wael B. Hallaq.

7 -

Formal rationality in Islamic law and the common law.

-- John Makdisi.

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Cross-cultural interaction between Islamic law and other legal systems; Islamic family law and Anglo-American public policy.

-- David Pearl.

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