Land, law and Islam : property and human rights in the Muslim world / Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim
By: Sait, Siraj [Author].
Contributor(s): Lim, Hilary [Author].
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TextPublisher: London, U.K. ; N.Y., U.S.A. : Zed Books Ltd., ©2006.Description: xi, 241 p.ISBN: 978 1 84277 810 4; 1 84277 810 2; 978 1 84277 813 5; 1 84277 813 7; 9781848137202; 1848137206.Subject(s): Property (Islamic law)DDC classification: 346.04091767 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group Library | 346.04091767 SAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3538 |
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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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