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Author Cattelan, Valentino

Title Religion and Contract Law in Islam From Medieval Trade to Global Finance
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (230 p.)
Series ICLARS Series on Law and Religion Series
ICLARS Series on Law and Religion Series
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and diagrams -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: ways of seeing an Arab Girl -- From archetypes to corpora iuris -- Representations, meaning, and signifying practices: the riddle of the Sphinx -- Imaginative geographies of Orientalism: The Almeh and the city of the 'aqd -- Looking at normative worlds -- listening to the language of Islam -- 1 Expelling the merchants from the Temple: methodology and the contents of this book
1.1. One Ring, some daemons, and Jesus Christ: the non-identity (1M) of law and religion -- 1.2. The problem at the heart of this book -- 1.3. Some conceptual help from three companions -- 1.3.1. How to compare? Non-identity, dialectic, and transformative praxis (Bhaskar) -- 1.3.2. What is Islam? Unity as plurality in the Muslim world (Ahmed) -- 1.3.3. How to deal with law-religion in Islam? Visual vs acoustic space (McLuhan) -- 1.4. Carrying the One Ring in the practice of trade: revelation, tradition, and reality -- 2 The revealed Word in translation: the space of law and religion in Islam
2.1. Babel, languages, and the sacred law of Islam -- 2.2. Profanations: religious vs secular in the Temple of Western modernity -- 2.3. An absence of religion? Translating the non-identity of dīn as Islamic bíos -- 2.4. The revelation of Islam: the Wor(l)d and its understanding -- 2.4.1. Translating Šarī'ah in human life: the normative science of fiqh -- 2.4.2. The dictum of the revelation as pre-scribed Law and the uṣūl al-fiqh -- 2.4.3. Furū' al-fiqh as de-scribed law in a iurisdictio of verdicts -- 2.4.4. From the rule (ḥukm) to the right (ḥaqq): an instance of action in the wor(l)d
2.4.5. Echoing the revelation in an acoustic space: a sacred law without corpus -- 2.5. The bridge of Babel: from the negation of fiqh (2E) to the comparison of the 'aqd -- 3 Comparing legal traditions: contract law and Muslim fiqh -- 3.1. The 'aqd as a craft of place in the space of Islam -- 3.2. A map of the city? The Two Towers and the plural itineraries of the madhāhib -- 3.3. 'Aqd and Islamic dīn -- 3.3.1. The rule (ḥukm al-'aqd), its subject, and its object: from legal capacity (ahliyya) and personality (dhimma) to the duty (wujūb) of the mukallaf
3.3.2. Religious qualifications (al-aḥkām al-khamsa) and the legal validity of the šar'ī act, its constitutive (arkān) and conditional (šurūṭ) elements -- 3.3.3. At the borders of the city: the act of disposal (taṣarruf) in relation to contractual rights (ḥuqūq al-'aqd) -- 3.4. The role of human will and rationality in the psychological formation of the 'aqd -- 3.4.1. Autonomie de la volonté and the 'reason' underlying the contract: 'illa and sabab in comparison with the civilian cause and the consideration of common law -- 3.4.2. Freedom of contract, nominate contracts, and attached stipulations
Notes Description based upon print version of record
3.4.3. Psychological components of the 'aqd: will (irāda), intention (niyya), animus contrahendi (qaṣd), choice (khiyār), and individual consent (riḍā)
Subject Contracts (Islamic law)
Contracts (Islamic law) -- History
Finance (Islamic law)
International finance.
Islamic law.
Religion and law.
Contracts (Islamic law)
Finance (Islamic law)
International finance.
Islamic law.
Religion and law.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351381697
1351381695