Product Description: Distinguished international scholar Chibli Mallat draws from his two-decade long experience with US policy-makers and Iraqi leaders for this breakthrough text. Iraq: Guide to Law and Policy offers timely coverage and incisive analysis of the American-Iraq experience in war and nation-building—examining the successes and failures of the law and policy implemented since the 2003 change of regime in Iraq...read more

Product Description: This book provides an introduction to the laws of the Middle East, defining the contours of a field of study that deserves to be called 'Middle Eastern law'. It introduces Middle Eastern law as a reflection of legal styles, many of which are shared by Islamic law and the laws of Christian and Jewish Near Eastern communities...read more

Product Description: The third volume in this yearbook, this work provides an up-to-date source of reference on Islamic law and modern Middle Eastern legal systems, both individually and comparatively. The text includes articles covering such issues as: Palestinian citizenship; prospects for Muslim law in South Africa; the status of Muslim women within marriages; and Islamic finance and privatization...read more

Product Description: Water law in Morocco, mut=a al Talaq under Egyptian and Jordanian law, arbitration law in Kuwait-this second volume of the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law covers a broad variety of topics, meeting the high standard of quality that marks this Yearbook series of publications...read more

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive study of the life and works of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - an Iraqi scholar who made an important contribution to the renewal of Islamic law and politics in the contemporary Middle East. Executed in 1980, Sadr was the most articulate thinker and a major political actor in the revival of Shi'i learning, which placed Najaf in Southern Iraq at its centre...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume provides a reference source on legal developments which occurred throughout the region in 1997/1998. It includes a collection of articles on topical legislation and legal documents, cases and notes, and coverage of Libyan economic policy and the UN sanctions regime in Iraq...read more

Product Description: The author of this volume addresses the Middle East peace process, the Islamic political agenda and the future of some Middle Eastern states from both a domestic and a regional point of view.

Product Description: This book brings together, for the first time, independent and highly respected lawyers and jurists from both sides of this century-old conflict, to identify and assess areas of common interest. As violence diminishes in favour of negotiation and compromise, all issues covered by the ongoing discussions will be determined by emerging rule of law...read more

Product Description: `Two years ago I had the privilege of opening a conference on commercial law in the Middle East, which was jointly organised by the School of Oriental and African Studies and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. It was an important occasion which brought together authoritative contributors from the principal countries in the Middle East as well as United Kingdom lawyers...read more

Product Description: Water is one of the most important and potentially explosive issues in modern Middle East politics. It is an issue arguably far more significant to the region than oil. It has dogged relations between Middle East societies for centuries if not millennia and will continue to do so long after oil has ceased to hold sway...read more

Product Description: A collection of essays which represent the most advanced scholarship on public law in the world of Islam. Whilst the studies cover a wide historical and geographical span, ranging from early views in classical Islamic texts to recent decisions of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, the importance of public law in the current debate, within an Islamic legal and cultural context, constitutes the thread running through the work...read more

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive study of the life and works of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - an Iraqi scholar who made an important contribution to the renewal of Islamic law and politics in the contemporary Middle East. Executed in 1980, Sadr was the most articulate thinker and a major political actor in the revival of Shi'i learning, which placed Najaf in Southern Iraq at its centre...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: There have been significant devlopments in the evolution of Islamic Law with respect to the family especially in those countries where the Shari'a tradition is influential. The aim of this book is to cover the current research into the most challenging areas of Islamic family law...read more