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Foreign Law Guide This link opens in a new window
This is the electronic version of the well-known 8-volume “green set” entitled “Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World,” by Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores, which is no longer updated in print. It provides essential information on primary and secondary sources of foreign law—what it is, where to find it, and how to use it. It covers more than 170 jurisdictions worldwide.

BC Access: Resource is available via computers connected to the BC network. Off-campus access requires a BC username and password, and is available to the BC Community only (current students, faculty and staff.)
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive, international, interdisciplinary reference work that includes approximately 1,000 articles on all aspects of legal history throughout the world from ancient to modern times. Includes multiple articles on Islamic law.

BC Access: Resource is available via computers connected to the BC network. Off-campus access requires a BC username and password, and is available to the BC Community only (current students, faculty and staff.)

Oxford Islamic Studies Online
The site includes the full content of four key scholarly works, two chaptered-works, two essential English-language interpretations of the Qur'an, the first electronic version of the standard Concordance used by English-speaking scholars around the world, and primary source documents.

World Constitutions Illustrated (HeinOnline) This link opens in a new window
A collection of contemporary and historical documents for many countries, including Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and many others. The collection includes primary source documents, as well as scholarly articles, bibliographies on constitutional law in the country, and other commentaries.

BC Access: Resource is available via computers connected to the BC network. Off-campus access requires a BC username and password, and is available to the BC Community only (current students, faculty and staff.)

Journals

The list below should be useful if you have a specific article that you need to access. If, however, you are looking for articles that deal with Islamic law, consider searching by keyword in a periodical index such as LegalTrac or the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, both available to the BC community through the law library's A-Z list.

Journal of Islamic law and culture
Publishes scholarly articles and reviews on Islamic law, history, politics, and culture; especially concerned with the Muslim experience with the West, both in an historical and contemporary context; committed to a global approach that publishes articles related to the jurisprudence, history, politics and cultural concerns of Muslims anywhere in the world.

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Volume 1 was published in 1996 as the Journal of Islamic Law; published by Routledge; issued 3 times a year; editorial offices at De Paul University; HeinOnline supplies volumes from 1996-2004; BC Law Library has the journal in print, with most recent issues are on reserve behind the circulation desk.
UCLA journal of Islamic and near eastern law
Published once a year since 2001; first law school journal in the West dealing with this topic; goal is to emphasize and critically analyze all legal issues--social, political, civil, historical, economic, and commercial--that are of particular relevance to Muslims and Near Easterners in both Muslim and non-Muslim societies.

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Entire run of journal is available through LexisNexis or in print at the BC Law Library.
Berkeley journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic law
Published annually since 2008, this journal publishes academic articles and student comments analyzing the laws of Middle Eastern countries and the Islamic world, the study and application of Islamic jurisprudence, and the impact of law on Muslim and Middle Eastern communities globally.

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BC has access to all but the most recent volume through HeinOnline; LexisNexis Academic provides the entire run, including the most recent volume; for PDFs of the most recent volume, please submit an interlibrary loan request.
Journal of Islamic state practices in international law
Concentrates on on issues concerning and involving Islamic States from the perspective of International Law. In this context, all States members of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) are considered to be Islamic States. In addition to the practices of individual Islamic States, the Journal will focus on multilateral co-operation in respect of Islamic States, in particular in the context of the OIC.

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Published by Electronic Publications; editorial board consists of scholars from countries such as Pakistan, Malaysia, the United States, the UK, etc.; BC has access back to Volume 1 through HeinOnline; most recent issue is embargoed on Hein and should be requested via interlibrary loan.
Islamic law and society
Provides a forum for research in the field of classical and modern Islamic law, in Muslim and non-Muslim countries; encourages discussion on all branches of Islamic law, with a view to promoting an understanding of Islamic law, in both theory and practice, from its emergence until modern times and from juridical, historical and social-scientific perspectives.

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Published by Brill; inaugural issue was published in 1994; BC has access to the entire run through InGentaConnect Journals.
Arab law quarterly
Covers all aspects of Arab laws, both Shari´a & secular; provides authoritative articles on laws & legal developments in the 20 countries of the Arab world; includes notes on recent legislation & case law, guidelines on future changes & reviews of latest literature; addresses trade with & investment in Arab States; useful for lawyers & jurists interested in international comparative law, transnational affairs, commercial law, and Islamic law.

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HeinOnline provides access back to Volume 1 (1985) but embargoes the most recent issues, which should be requested via interlibrary loan.
American journal of comparative law
Scholarly quarterly journal devoted to comparative law, comparing the laws of one or more nations with those of another or discussing one jurisdiction's law in order for the reader to understand how it might differ from that of the United States or another country; publishes features articles contributed by major scholars and comments by law student writers; includes many articles that address Islamic law.

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HeinOnline provides access back to Volume 1 (1952). BC Law Library also has all volumes in print. Published by the American Society of Comparative Law
Journal of Islamic Studies
Multi-disciplinary publication dedicated to the scholarly study of all aspects of Islam and of the Islamic world. Particular attention is paid to works dealing with history, geography, political science, economics, anthropology, sociology, law, literature, religion, philosophy, international relations, environmental and developmental issues, as well as ethical questions related to scientific research. Published by Oxford University Press.

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Oxford Journals provides access to the entire run of the journal, from 1990 to the most recent issue, in PDF.

E-books

The fall and rise of the Islamic state (2008) by Noah Feldman
Call Number: Electronic book
Introduction to Islamic theology and law (1981) by Ignaz Goldziher ; translated by Andras and Ruth Hamori ; with an introduction and additional notes by Bernard Lewis
Call Number: Electronic book
Islam and liberal citizenship: the search for an overlapping consensus (2009) by Andrew F. March
Call Number: Electronic book
From publisher: March demonstrates that there are very strong and authentically Islamic arguments for accepting the demands of citizenship in a liberal democracy, many of them found even in medieval works of Islamic jurisprudence.
An Islamic court in context: an ethnographic study of judicial reasoning (2009) by Erin E. Stiles
Call Number: Electronic book
Focus is on Tanzania.
Islamic jurisprudence in the classical era (2010) by Norman Calder; edited by Colin Imber; introduction and afterword by Robert Gleave.
Includes four essays by Norman Calder that categorize and analyze the different genres of Islamic juristic literature that was produced between the tenth and fourteenth centuries, showing what function they served both in the preservation of Muslim legal and religious traditions and in the day-to-day lives of their communities. The essays also examine the status and role of the jurists themselves and are to be particularly welcomed for giving clear answers to the controversial questions of how far Islamic law and juristic thinking changed over the centuries, and how far it was able to adapt to new circumstances.
Islamic law in the modern world (1959) by J.N.D. Anderson
Call Number: Electronic book
Justice, punishment and the medieval Muslim imagination (2008) by Christian Lange
Call Number: Electronic book
The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East (2010) by Timur Kuran
Call Number: Electronic book
The origins of Muhammadan jurisprudence (1967) by Joseph Schacht
Call Number: Electronic book
Radical reform: Islamic ethics and liberation (2009) by Tariq Ramadan
Call Number: Electronic book
From publisher: Ramadan argues that it is crucial to find theoretical and practical solutions that will enable Western Muslims to remain faithful to Islamic ethics while fully living within their societies and their time.
The renewal of Islamic law: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf, and the Shi’i International (1993) by Chibli Mallat
Call Number: Electronic book; Law General Collection KBP370 .S24 M35 1993
First comprehensive study of the life and works of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - an Iraqi scholar who made an important contribution to the renewal of Islamic law and politics in the contemporary Middle East. Executed in 1980, Sadr was the most articulate thinker and a major political actor in the revival of Shi'i learning, which placed Najaf in Southern Iraq at its centre. Dr Chibli Mallat examines the intellectual development of Sadr and his companions who included Ruhullah al-Khumaini and assesses Sadr's innovative approaches to the study of law, economics and banking.
Sharia risk? : how Islamic finance has transformed Islamic contract law (2008) by Kilian Bälz
Call Number: Electronic book
Sharīʻa in Songhay: the replies of al-Maghīlī to the questions of Askia al-Ḥājj Muḥammad (1985) by edited and translated with an introduction and commentary by John O. Hunwick
Call Number: Electronic book
Women, family, and gender in Islamic law (2008) by Judith E. Tucker
Call Number: Electronic book; Law General Collection KBP526.3 .T83 2008
From publisher: Working with concepts drawn from feminist legal theory and by using particular cases to illustrate her arguments, the author systematically addresses questions of discrimination and expectation - what did men expect of their womenfolk - and of how the language of the law contributed to that discrimination, infecting the system and all those who participated in it.
Women, Islam and international law: within the context of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2009) by Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko
Call Number: Electronic book

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