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Islamic Jurisprudence
C. G. Weeramantry
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Description for Islamic Jurisprudence
Paperback. "Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition, 1988."--T.p. verso Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV; LAB; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Islamic jurisprudence is a much misunderstood system. The misunderstanding is due to lack of information and to centuries of prejudice. This book seeks to present information, not at present available in a single work, on the pioneering efforts of Islamic jurists to develop a comprehensive body of human rights, principles and practice, as well as a corpus of international law principles. The attempt to develop such international law principles long anticipated any similar work in other legal or cultural systems. Human rights doctrine based upon the Qu'ran and the Sunna of the Prophet was expressed in terms which will strike ... Read more
Islamic jurisprudence is a much misunderstood system. The misunderstanding is due to lack of information and to centuries of prejudice. This book seeks to present information, not at present available in a single work, on the pioneering efforts of Islamic jurists to develop a comprehensive body of human rights, principles and practice, as well as a corpus of international law principles. The attempt to develop such international law principles long anticipated any similar work in other legal or cultural systems. Human rights doctrine based upon the Qu'ran and the Sunna of the Prophet was expressed in terms which will strike ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349194582
SKU
V9781349194582
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About C. G. Weeramantry
C. G. WEERAMANTRY is Professor of Law at Monash University in Australia and was formerly a Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. He teaches international law and human rights and has written several works on those subjects and on comparative law.
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