Islamic Law Research Guide

Primary sources of all principles of Islamic laws:

• Quran
• The Sunnah (the normative traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers), consisting of the Hadith (the form of Traditions written down; an account of what the Prophet said or did, or of his tacit approval of something said or done in his presence) and the Sira (prophetic biography)

Print

• The Qur'an / a new translation by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
• The Qurʼan: a user's guide: a guide to its key themes, history and interpretation / Farid Esack
• Sources of Islamic jurisprudence : justice and law in Islam / Mahgoub El-Tigani Mahmoud ; with a foreword by Lewis Baldwin (2014) LES - Morris Call Number: KBP449 .M34 2014 

Overviews and Introductory Works

• An introduction to Islamic law / Joseph Schacht (Clarendon Press, 1964 || 1982 edition not available in the Yale Library Collection)
• Law reform in the Muslim world / Sir Norman Anderson (Athlone Press, 1976)
• Islam and public law: classical and contemporary studies  / Chibli Mallat (ed) (Graham & Trotman, 1993)
• An introduction to the Hadith  / J. Burton (Edinburgh University Press, 1994)
• Qur'an and modern jurisprudence / Mustafa Kamal Sherwani (New Royal Book Co., 2004)
• Outlines of Muhammadan Law / A. A. A. Fyzee (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Shariʻah law : an introduction / Mohammad Hashim Kamali (Oneworld Publications, 2008)
• An introduction to Islamic law / Wael B. Hallaq (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• Legal System in Islam / M.I. Navaid (Discovery Publishing House, 2010) - Not in Yale Library Collection
• Sharia Incorporated: A comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present / J.M. Otto (Leiden University Press, 2010)
• Islamic Law / G.N. Picken (Routledge, 2011)
• "The Islamic Legal Tradition" in The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law / Kh. Abou El Fadl (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics / J.L. Esposito and S. Emad El-Din (editors) (Oxford University Press, 2013)
• Islamic Law : A Very Short Introduction / M.A. Baderin (Oxford University Press, 2021) 
• The Ashgate research companion to Islamic law / Rudolph Peters and Peri Bearman (e.d.) (Ashgate, 2014)

History and Interpretation

• The origins of Muhammadan jurisprudence / Joseph Schacht (Clarendon Press, 1950)
• A History of Islamic Law / N.J. Coulson (Edinburgh University Press, 1978)
• The gate of ijtihād: a study in Islamic legal history / by Wael B. Hallaq (Thesis (Ph.D.)--U. of Wash., 1983)
• Islamic Legal Interpretation : Muftis and their Fatwas  / M. K. Masud, B. Messick and D.S, Powers (eds.) (Harvard University Press, 1996)
• A history of Islamic legal theories : an introduction to Sunnī uṣūl al-fiqh / Wael B. Hallaq ( Cambridge University Press, 1997)
• Authority, continuity and change in Islamic law / Wael B. Hallaq (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• Studies in Islamic Legal Theory / B. G. Weiss (Leiden : Brill, 2002) 
• Islamic law: from historical foundations to contemporary practice / Mawil Izzi Dien. (Edinburgh University Press, 2004)
• Qur'an and modern jurisprudence / Mustafa Kamal Sherwani (New Royal Book Co., 2004)
• Between God and the Sultan: A History of Islamic Law  / K.Vikør (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• The Islamic school of law : evolution, devolution, and progress / Bearman et al. (ed.) (Harvard University Press, 2005)
• The origins and evolution of Islamic law / Wael B. Hallaq ( Cambridge University Press, 2005)
• The Qurʼānic term kalāla : studies in Arabic language and poetry, ḥadīṯ, tafsīr, and fiqh : notes on the origins of Islamic law / Agostino Cilardo (Edinburgh University Press, 2005)
• The Sanhuri Code, and the Emergence of Modern Arab Civil Law (1932 to 1949) / G. Bechor (Brill, 2007)
• S  harīʻa : theory,   practice, transformations / Wael B. Hallaq (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• The New Cambridge History of Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
  • Vol. 1, The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries
  • Vol. 2, The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries
  • Vol. 3, The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries
  • Vol. 4, Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century
  • Vol. 5, The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance
  • Vol. 6, Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society since 1800Sharia Incorporated : a Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present
• Islamic Law : Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies / G.N.Picken (ed.) (Routledge, 2011)
• A history of Islamic law / N.J. Coulson (Transaction Publishers, 2011)
• Islamic Law in Past and Present / M. Rohe (Leiden, 2015)
• Shari'a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics / R.W. Hefner (Indiana University Press, 2016) 

Family Law/Personal Status Law

• Studies in Qur'an and hadith: The Formation of the Law of Inheritance  / D.S. Powers (Berkeley University Press, 1986)
• Islamic Family Law / Mallat, S. and Connors, J. ( Graham and Trotman, 1990)
• Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation / Barbara Freyer Stowasser (Oxford University Press, 1994).
• Statutes of personal law in Islamic countries: history, texts and analysis / Tahir Mahmood (India and Islam Research Council, 1995)
• Islamic marriage and divorce laws of the Arab world. / Dawoud El Alami & Doreen Hinchcliffe (Kluwer Law International, 1996)
• Hand Book of Muslim Family Laws  / Obaidul Huq Chowdhury (Al Afsar Press, 1997)
• Muslim family law / David Pearl & Werner Menski (Sweet & Maxwell, 1998)
• Qur'an and Woman / Amina Wadud (Oxford University Press, 1999)
• Islamic family law in a changing world : a global resource book / ed. Abdullahi A. An-Na'im (Zed Books, 2002)
• The Islamic law of personal status  / Jamal J.A. Nasir (Brill, 2009)
• Islamic law and marriage / ed. Muhammad Moinuddin Khan (Discovery Pub. House, 2011)
• Applying Shari'a in the West: Facts, Fears and the Future of Islamic Rules on Family Relations in the West / M.S. Berger (e.d.) (Leiden University Press, 2013)
• Muslim Family Law in Western Courts / E.G. Giunchi (Routledge, Taylor, and Francis Group, 2014)
• Islamic Divorces in Europe, Bridging the Gap between European and Islamic Legal Orders / P.M. Kruiniger (Eleven International Publishing, 2015)

Criminal law

• The Islamic criminal justice system / Ed. M. Cherif Bassiouni (Oceana Publications, 1982)
• Islamic criminal law and procedure : an introduction / Matthew Lippman, Sean McConville, and Mordechai Yerushalmi  (Praeger Publishers, 1988)
• Crime and punishment in Islamic law : theory and practice from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century / Rudolph Peters (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Islamic Banking and Finance

• Commercial Law in the Gulf States / Noel J. Coulson (Graham and Trotman, 1984)
• Islamic Law and Finance / Chibli Mallat (ed.) (Graham & Trotman. 1988)
• The Theory of Contracts in Islamic Law / S. E. Rayner (Graham and Trotman, 1991)
• Islamic Banking and Interest / Abdullah Saeed (Brill, 1996)
• Islamic Law and Finance : Religion, risk and return / Vogel, Frank E. and Samuel L Hayes, III (Kluwer Law International, 1998)
• Islamic Finance in the Global Economy / Ibrahim Warde (Edinburgh University Press, 2000)
• Islamic finance and law : theory and practice in a globalized world / Maha-Hanaan Balala (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
• La place de la chari'a dans les systèmes juridiques des pays arabes / S. Jahel (Éditions Panthéon-Assas, 2012) 
• Shari'ah Governance in Islamic Banks / Zulkifli Hasan (Edinburgh University Press, 2012)
• The Transformation of Islamic Law in Global Financial Markets / J.G. Ercanbrack (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Women’s Rights

• Women and Gender in Islam / Leila Ahmed (Yale University Press, 1992)
• The Status of Women Under Islamic Law / Nasir, J. (London: Graham & Trotman, 1994)
• Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation  / Barbara Freyer Stowasser (Oxford, 1994). 
• Islam and Feminism / Yamani, Mai (ed.)  (Reading, Berkshire, U.K. : Ithaca Press, c1996)
• Qur'an and Woman / Amina Wadud (Oxford University Press, 1999)
• Encyclopedia of women and Islamic cultures (Brill, 2003-)
• Women under Islam : gender, justice and the politics of Islamic law / Christina Jones-Pauly, Abir Dajani Tuqan (I. B. Tauris, 2011)

Intersection with Public International Law

• War and Peace in the Law of Islam / Majid Khadduri (Johns Hopkins, 1955).
• The projected Arab Court of Justice : a study in regional jurisdiction with specific reference to the Muslim law of nations / Ezzeldin Foda  (M. Nijhoff, 1957)
• Islamic law of nations: Shaybānī's Siyar. Translated with an introd., notes, and appendices by Majid Khadduri (Johns Hopkins, 1967)
• Toward an Islamic Reformation  / Abdullahi An' Naim (Syracuse University Press, 1990)
• Islam, international law, and the war against terrorism : essays dedicated to Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Tuanku Ismail Petra ibni almarhum Sultan Yahya Petra, Sultan dan Yang Di-pertuan bagi Negeri Kelantan Darulnaim / Shad Saleem Faruqi (University Publication Centre, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 2006)
• International Law and Islamic Law / M.A. Baderin (e.d.) (Ashgate, 2008)
• The Islamic Law of War: Justifications and Regulations / A. Al-Dawoody (Palgrave Macmillian, 2011)
• Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics / A.E. Mayer (Westview Press, 2013)
• The Sharia and Islamic Criminal Justice in Time of War and Peace / M. Cherif Bassiouni (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
• War and Law in the Islamic World / M. Vanhullebusch (Nijhoff, 2015)