The Ashgate research companion to Islamic law / by Rudolph Peters and Peri Bearman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The nature of the sharia / Rudolph Peters and Peri Bearman -- The origins of the sharia / Knut S. Vikor -- The divine sources / Herbert Berg -- The schools of law? / Paul R. Powers -- Deriving rules of law / Robert Gleave -- The judge and the mufti / Brinkley Messick -- State and sharia / Mohammad Fadel -- Qanun and sharia / Bogac Ergene -- Equality before the law / Gianluca P. Parolin -- Gender relations / Christina Jones-Pauly -- Socio-economic justice / Hiroyuki Yanagihashi -- Public order / Christian R. Lange -- Constitutional authority / Andrew F. March -- War and peace / Sohail H. Hashmi -- Sharia and the colonial state / Leon Buskens -- Sharia and the nation state / Maurits S. Berger -- The re-Islamization of legal systems / Martin Lau -- Sharia and finance / Abdullah Saeed -- Sharia and the Muslim diaspora / Mathias Rohe -- Sharia and modernity / Kristine Kalanges -- Sharia and medical ethics / Birgit Krawietz -- The normative relevance of sharia in the modern context / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im .