Islamic law in past and present

Front Matter -- About This Book -- 'Sharia' and Law -- The Origins of the Islamic State and Its Legal System -- The Development of the Dogmatics of Islamic Law -- Judgments and Opinions -- Overview of the Areas Governed by Classical Islamic Law -- Further Development and Upheaval from the Thirteenth/Nineteenth Century Onwards -- Methods for Further Development and Examples of Practical Application -- Core Areas of Modern Islamic Law -- Introduction -- India: An Example of a Territory Previously under Muslim Rule -- Canada: An Example of a Typical Immigration Country -- Germany (Also Taking into Account Other European Countries) -- Between Secularisation and Re-Islamisation -- Conclusion: The Search for New Approaches -- The Structure of the Kitāb al-mabsūṭ fī l-furūʿ by the Hanafite Jurist al-Sarakhsī (d. 483/1090) -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index of Persons and Terms.