Böcker av Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee

This book addresses the need to educate people by providing a readable text of reasonable size that covers the myriad questions that fall in the jurisdiction of that discipline. It seeks to offer both lay and specialized readers, especially university students, a handy reader which is simple and lucid. Undoubtedly, üul al-fiqh is a subject that is replete with subtleties that challenge even the most intelligent minds. It is gratifying that the author has greatly simplified the subject to serve the needs of the non-specialists. However, the simplification of the subject has gone hand in hand with thoroughness and academic rigour. This work is a significant addition to the textbooks available on the subject in English.About the AuthorImran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, born in 1945, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Shari'ah and Law, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He obtained his law degree from Punjab University in 1969. In 1983, he was awarded a gold medal for his performance in the LL.M. (Shari'ah) programme by the International Islamic University (Pakistan). In 1987, he obtained an LL.M. degree from the University of Michigan Law School, U.S.A. Among his other works are a translation of Ibn Rushd's well-known book Bidayat al-Mujtahid, Theories of Islamic Law: The Methodology of Ijtihad, Islamic Law of Business Organization: Partnerships, Islamic Law of Business Organization: Corporations and The Concept of Riba and Islamic Banking.

Outlines of Islamic jurisprudence covers a number of topics of usul al-fiqh, sometimes in abridged form, that have been covered in the title on the subject of Islamic Jurisprudence by the same author. The significance of this book can only be understood through a comparison with that book. Islamic jurisprudence focuses on the discipline of usul al-fiqh and deals with it in an exhaustive way. It, thus, covers the different aspects of interpretation and theories of Islamic law. The present book includes some of the topics covered in that book. The bulk of Outlines of Islamic Jurisprudence, however, summarizes the entire law of Islam presenting it in a concise yet effective way. Due to the treatment of the entire Islamic law in a comprehensive way, the book is like a short encyclopedia. The book was first published in 1998 and is now in its sixth edition. It is very popular among law students, lawyers and even the general readers.

The present book is a small introduction to the larger work to be published in small volumes, but as part of a series. The book visualizes modern Islamic law as the common law of all Muslims, a law that exists at the global level and is concerned with issues that may be found within individual states. For the details, this book is to be read. It has intentionally been kept very concise and brief.Rapid changes in the world, in the last few decades, have now created an opportunity for Islamic law to rise again. This rise of Islamic law for the new millennium will not be through the coercive power of a modern state or even through physical domination. It will come about through the rise of the Muslim Ummah meeting, participating and collaborating through cyberspace for the benefit and service of all humanity. This small book outlines and explains this dynamic framework that heralds the revival and development of this law with the help of a new methodology that has been left as a heritage by the ancestors.