Research Catalog

Title

The Islamic law of nations: Shaybānī's Siyar. Translated with an introd., notes, and appendices by Majid Khadduri.

Author

Shaybānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, approximately 750-804 or 805.

Publication

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1966]

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Details

Additional Authors

Khadduri, Majid, 1908-2007.

Description

xviii, 311 pages; 23 cm

Uniform Title

• كتاب الاصل. الانكليزية
• Siyar al-ṣaghīr. English

Alternative Title

• كتاب الاصل.
• Siyar al-ṣaghīr.

Subject

• International law (Islamic law)
• War (Islamic law)
• Taxation (Islamic law)
• Criminal law (Islamic law)
• Apostasy (Islamic law)
• Droit international (Droit islamique)

Note

• Translation of an excerpt from al-Shaybānī's Kitāb al-aṣl, entitled: Abwāb al-siyar fī arḍ al-ḥarb.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-306).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / by Philip C. Jessup -- Preface -- Translator's introduction. Islamic law and the law of nations ; Theory of the Islamic law of nations ; Shaybānī's life and writings ; Shaybānī and the Islamic law of nations ; Changes in the concepts of the Siyar after Shaybānī ; The text of the Siyar -- Translation of Shaybānī's Siyar. [pt.] I. [Traditions relating to the conduct of war] ; [pt.] II. On the conduct of the army in enemy territory ; [pt.] III. [On the spoil of war] ; [pt.] IV. [On the intercourse between the territory of Islam (Dār al-Islām) and the territory of war (Dār al-Ḥarb)] ; [pt.] V. [On peace treaties] ; [pt.] VI. [On Amān (safe conduct)] ; [pt.] VII. [On apostasy] ; [pt.] VIII. [On dissension and highway robbery] ; [pt.] IX. Supplement to the Kitāb al-Siyar ; [pt.] X. Kitāb al-Kharāj (The book of taxation) ; [pt.] XI. Book on ʻUshr (Tithe) According to Dāwūd b. Rushayd.

ISBN

• 0801803349
• 9780801803345

LCCN

^^^66014377^

OCLC

• 511842
• SCSB-10712567

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library