- Introduction/Preface, Khaled Abou El Fadl
Part I: Approaching Islamic Law
- 1. What Type of Law is Islamic Law?, Khaled Abou El Fadl
- 2. The Original Condition and the Objectives of Law, Mohammad Fadel
- 3. The Sacred and Profane in Islamic Law, Frank Griffel
- 4. The Rights of God and the Rights of Human Beings in Islamic Jurisprudence, Muhammad Khalid Masud
- 5. Morality and Ethics in Islamic Law, Sherman Jackson
Part II: Sources and Origins of Islamic Law
- 6. Legal Systems of the Near East: The Pre-Islamic Context, Harald Motzki
- 7. The Qur'an as a Source of Law, Mohammad Hashim Kamali
- 8. The Hadith and Sunna as sources of Law, Ahmed Souaiaia
- 9. Analogy (Qiyas) and the Operative Cause in Legally Deductive Reasoning, Ahmad Atif Ahmad
- 10. The Juristic Debates on the Role of Consensus (Ijma') as an Instrument of Development and Consolidation, Zafar Ishaq Ansari
- Part III: The Emergence and Dynamics of Islamic Law: The Classical Legacy
- 11. The Emergence of the Madhahib in Islamic Law, Wael B. Hallaq
- 12. Usul al-Fiqh and Tarjih, Bernard G. Weiss
- 12. Asbab al-Ikhtilaf and Maxims of law (Qawa'id al-Fiqhiyya), Felicitas Opwis
- 13. Principles of Equity and Necessity in Islamic Law, Intisar Rabb
- 14. Custom and Social Practice: 'Urf and 'Adah, Ayman Shabana
- 15. Maqasid al-Shari'ah and maslaha, David L. Johnson
- 16. Ijtihad and Taqlid, Ahmad Dallal or Sherman Jackson
- Part IV: Praxis and Islamic Law
- 17. Islamic Law and the State, Adis Duderija
- 18. Qadis and Judicial Authority in the Development of Islamic Law, David Powers or Muhammad Khalid Masud
- 18. Muftis and the Social Practice of Islamic Law, Kristen Stilt or Intisar Rabb
- 19. Legal Education and the Guilds of Law, Joseph E. Lowry
- Part V: Substantive Fields of Islamic Law
- 20. Legal Offenses, Cherif Bassiouni or Oussama Arabi
- 21. Legal Obligations, Nabil Saleh or Lena Salaymeh
- 22. Family Law and Succession, Ziba Mir-Hosseini or Kecia Ali
- 23. Property law and the Waqf , John Makdisi
- 24. Jihad, Sovereignty, and Jurisdiction: The Issue of the Abode of Islam, Rudolph Peters
- Part VI: Islamic Law: Transformation and Modernity
- 25. The Ottoman Mejelle and the Tanzimat Reforms, Colin Imber or Oussama Arabi
- 26. Colonialism and the Mixed Courts of Egypt, Mark Hoyle or Rudolph Peters
- 27. The Age of Codifications and the Modern Nation-State, Amir Boozari or Abdul Hakim al-Matroudi
- 28. Legal Reformist Thought in the Contemporary Age, Tariq Ramadan
- Part VII: Islamic Law and the Challenges of the Age of Globalization
- 29. Islamic Law and the Challenge of Secularism, Muhammad Zia ul-Haq
- 30. The Shari'ah and the Principles of Constitutionalism, Nader Hashemi
- 31. Islamic Law and the Challenge of Human rights, Andrew F. March
- 32. Islamic Law and the Question of Gender Equality, Haifaa Jawad or Mona Siddiqui
- 33. Terrorism, Religious Violence, and the Shari'ah , Javaid Rehman
- 34. Muslim Minorities in the West, Said Fares Hassan
- 35. Islamic Banking, Frank E. Vogel
