TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sait,Siraj
AU  - Lim,Hilary
TI  - Land, law and Islam: property and human rights in the Muslim world
SN  - 978 1 84277 810 4
U1  - 346.04091767 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London, U.K., N.Y., U.S.A.
PB  - Zed Books Ltd.
KW  - Property (Islamic law)
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -