Religion and Contract Law in Islam

From Medieval Trade to Global Finance
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-53914-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

Reihe: ICLARS Series on Law and Religion

What is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secular life? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a search that spans revelation, legal tradition, and the reality of the Muslim world, this book explores the Islamic contract (‘aqd in Arabic) as a ‘city’ at the crossroads of convergent paths of translation, comparison, and law in context.

In particular, the book shows that only by re-orienting traditional categories of Western law-religion toward the East can an alternative path of discovery for the ‘aqd be advanced. Hence, through a fortuitous encounter with an Arab Girl, the reader will (re-)visit the Temple of Western modernity and explore a city ruled by Towers of dialectical forces, carrying a hermeneutical Ring that combines dialectics, Islamic studies, and media theory. This interdisciplinary approach will not only enrich our knowledge of the ‘aqd but also make it more understandable as a cultural and social construction to which both Muslims and non-Muslims have participated in forging its multiple representations. By inviting the readers ‘to know who they are’ while looking at her, the Arab Girl is already waiting for us to listen to the Islamic contract in a new way.

By applying a distinctive law and religion approach to the study of the contract in Islam, the book provides a comprehensive exploration of a topic that is of interest to legal and economic comparatists as well as to readers in anthropology, Islamic and cultural studies, and it is also of topical meaning for today’s international lawyers and the operators of an increasingly multicultural and transnational market.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cattelan, Valentino

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and diagrams

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: ways of seeing an Arab Girl

1. Expelling the merchants from the Temple: methodology and the contents of this book

2. The revealed Word in translation: the space of law and religion in Islam

3. Comparing legal traditions: contract law and Muslim fiqh

4. Realities of the Muslim world: changing contexts over time

Conclusions: ways of saying the ‘aqd

Glossary of Arabic terms

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Valentino Cattelan is Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University, where he teaches contract law, EU law, and Islamic business law. He is specialised in comparative law and has published widely on aspects of Islamic law, economics, and finance.