Sait, Siraj

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Land, law and Islam property and human rights in the Muslim world / Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim . — London, U.K. ;N.Y., U.S.A. : Zed Books Ltd., ©2006.

xi, 241 p.

incl. bibliographical references and index

Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Anna K. Tibaijuka, UN Under-Secretary-General, Executive-Director of UN-HABITAT -- 1 Researching Islam, Land and Property -- 2 Islamic Law, Land and Methodologies -- 3 Islamic Land Tenures and Reform -- 4 Islamic Human Rights and Land -- 5 Inheritance Laws and Systems -- 6 Muslim Women and Property -- 7 The Waqf (Endowment) and Islamic Philanthropy -- 8 Islamic Credit and Microfinance -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index

In this pioneering work, Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary debates and their practice

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Property (Islamic law)