Mohammad Hashim Kamali is Founding CEO of the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia. He was Professor of Islamic Law and Jurisprudence at the International Islamic University, Malaysia, and then Dean of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Jordan; Institute of Advanced Study Berlin, and Afghanistan's Academy of Sciences.

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Introduction

I Shariah and Fiqh - Meaning, Definition, Sources, Salient Features and Comparisons with other Legal Systems

II Legal Opinion (fatwa) and Independent Reasoning (Ijtihad)

III Shariah and Acts of Worship (¿Ibadat)

IV Schools of Islamic Law, the Madhhabs

V The Scale of Five Values (al-Ahkam al-Khamsah)

VI Shariah Court Proceedings, Evidence and Proof

VII Shariah, Criminal Law and the Prescribed Hudud Punishments

VIII Hudud in the Present-Day Muslim Countries

IX Shariah, Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties

X Jihad, Violence and War

XI Shariah, Gender and Family

XII Islamic Banking and Finance

XIII Shariah and Private Property

XIV Modern Bioethical and Environmental Questions

XV Freedom of Religion and the Rights of Minorities

XVI Goals and Purposes (Maqasid) of Shariah

XVII Legal Maxims of Fiqh (Qawäid kulliyyah fiqhiyyah)

Qur'anic Verses, Hadith and Legal Maxims (in Original Arabic)

Bibliography

Glossary

Index