Legal Studies 397LM - ST- Islamic Law & Society

The purpose of this class is to provide students with an introduction to the main theoretical and practical dimensions of Islamic law. The course will cover: a brief historical overview of the development of Islamic law, the methods and foundations of Islamic legal theory, the main substantive topics and divisions of Islamic positive law, and at few major areas of Islamic positive law in relative depth. Further, the course will cover the transformation of Islamic law in modernity with the formation of the modern sovereign state, the codification of certain areas of Islamic law, and the reassignment of authority over the law to new actors using new methods.

This course is open to Senior, Junior, and Sophomore Legal Studies majors only. Pre Req: LEGAL 250