- The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law
- Editors’ Introduction
- Notes on the Contributors
- Islamic Legal Studies: A Critical Historiography
- On Reading Fiqh
- Islamic Law and Gender
- Islamic Law and Theology
- Anthropology and Islamic Law
- Falsafa and Law
- Ijtihad
- Imami Shi‘I Legal Theory: From its Origins to the Early Twentieth Century
- Custom in the Islamic Legal Tradition
- The Historiography of Sunni Usul al-Fiqh
- Ijma‘
- al-Qadi
- Hisba and Muhtasib
- The Mazalim in Historiography
- Origins of and Influences on Islamic law
- The Classical Period: Scripture, Origins, and Early Development
- The Age of Development and Continuity, 12th–15th Centuries CE
- The Historiography of Islamic Law During the Mamluk Sultanate
- Law in the Ottoman Empire
- A Historiography of Islamic Law in the Mughal Empire
- Delivering Justice: The Monarch’s ‘Urfi Courts and the Shari‘a in Safavid Iran
- Anglo-Muhammadan Law
- Legislation as an Instrument of Islamic Law
- Islamic Law and Society in Southeast Asia
- Islamic Law in Post-revolutionary Iran
- The Turkish Republic
- Islamic Law in South Asia: A Testament to Diversity
- The Incorporation of Shari‘a in North America: Enforcing the Mahr to Combat Women’s Poverty Post-relationship Dissolution
- Islamic Law in Western Europe
- Shari‘a in Australia
- Islamic Law and Constitutions
- Islamic Law and Human Rights
- Islamic Law and Finance
- Animals
- A Historiography of Islamic Family Law
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter examines the scholarship in the new and growing field of study of Islamic animal law. It starts by defining the field of animal law generally and then explaining what makes animal law scholarship Islamic. Turning to Islamic animal law, the chapter first explains the origins of the field and then discusses contemporary Islamic animal law scholarship, which dates to the early-twenty first century and has focused on questions of purity and the dog; causing animals harm; anthropocentricism; and slaughter and the designation of halal. The chapter concludes by identifying promising areas for future scholarship.
Keywords: non-human animals, species, dog, slaughter, halal, anthropocentrism
pg xvKristen Stilt is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is the Faculty Director of the Animal Law and Policy Program and Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law
- Editors’ Introduction
- Notes on the Contributors
- Islamic Legal Studies: A Critical Historiography
- On Reading Fiqh
- Islamic Law and Gender
- Islamic Law and Theology
- Anthropology and Islamic Law
- Falsafa and Law
- Ijtihad
- Imami Shi‘I Legal Theory: From its Origins to the Early Twentieth Century
- Custom in the Islamic Legal Tradition
- The Historiography of Sunni Usul al-Fiqh
- Ijma‘
- al-Qadi
- Hisba and Muhtasib
- The Mazalim in Historiography
- Origins of and Influences on Islamic law
- The Classical Period: Scripture, Origins, and Early Development
- The Age of Development and Continuity, 12th–15th Centuries CE
- The Historiography of Islamic Law During the Mamluk Sultanate
- Law in the Ottoman Empire
- A Historiography of Islamic Law in the Mughal Empire
- Delivering Justice: The Monarch’s ‘Urfi Courts and the Shari‘a in Safavid Iran
- Anglo-Muhammadan Law
- Legislation as an Instrument of Islamic Law
- Islamic Law and Society in Southeast Asia
- Islamic Law in Post-revolutionary Iran
- The Turkish Republic
- Islamic Law in South Asia: A Testament to Diversity
- The Incorporation of Shari‘a in North America: Enforcing the Mahr to Combat Women’s Poverty Post-relationship Dissolution
- Islamic Law in Western Europe
- Shari‘a in Australia
- Islamic Law and Constitutions
- Islamic Law and Human Rights
- Islamic Law and Finance
- Animals
- A Historiography of Islamic Family Law
- Index