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Islamic law
Print resources
The LawBod's collection of printed material is on the Lower (Freshfields IT Room) Floor.
The majority of the volumes are in a Western European language.
Shelfmarks start Islamic. There is no further subject classification within this section: the books are arranged according to first author/editor's surname.
Bandar collection of Islamic law
In 2000 HRH Prince Bandar Salman Al-Saud generously donated 360 books to the Bodleian Law Library. The books, in Arabic, mainly focus on international commercial law, including the international law governing the arbitration of disputes between countries, world trade, company law, bankruptcy, employment law, commercial law, banking and leasing; some deal with constitutional law, criminal law and civil law. Some books are comparative studies of aspects of law in two or more states. A small number treat the relationship of modern law with Islamic law (shariah). Some focus on Saudi Arabian law.
They are also shelved on the Lower Floor, immediately after the Islamic shelfmark. Their shelfmarks begin Bandar. The volumes are arranged by subject matter following the Library of Congress classification scheme.
Finally, the Library may have holdings for jurisdictions whose legal systems have been influenced (to a greater or lesser degree) by Islamic tradition. Any such works will be shelved under the jurisdiction's name. Works which compare or consider 2 or more countries within the Islamic tradition or compare them with the laws from other traditions will be shelved in the section with shelfmarks starting General. (This area is on the main Reading Room Floor - in the wing beyond the Photocopying Room.
Catalogue searches may uncover titles of interest held in other Bodleian libraries - Oriental Institute Library (OIL), Islamic Studies Library (ISL), Social Science Library (SSL).
Electronic resources
- Islamic lawOU members only. Online version of Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. "This entry contains six subentries, an overview of Islamic law, discussion of the sources and methodology of the law, the genres of legal literature, legal and ethical qualifications, spheres of the law, and transmission and authenticity of the reports from the prophet. For discussion of the schools of Islamic law, see Islamic Schools of Sacred Law." Hard copy is at Ref 103 in LawBod
- BBC Religions - Islam: ShariaFree resource. Introduction which includes podcast of discussion between Dr Usama Hasan is the imam of the Tawhid Mosque and an advisor to the London Sharia Council, Faisal Aqtab is a barrister and head of the Hijaz College Islamic University and Dr Haleh Afshar is Professor in Politics at York University on the Muslim vision of Islamic law, the source and interpretation of Sharia, punishments and the status of women.
- The application of Islamic law in the English CourtsFree section of CIMEL at SOAS. The Noel Coulson Memorial lecture for 1995 delivered by His Honour Judge David Pearl
- Impact of Islam on the UK's law of religionFree resource. Pdf of Prof Julian River's 2010 contribution in the Copenhagen Unversity Islam Lecture Series.
- SSRN: Legal Scholarship Network OU members only. Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal
- Islam and Islamic Studies ResourcesPortal from University of Georgia, USA.
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