Contents

List of contributors vii

Acknowledgements x

Introduction: Islamic law in action 1

Nadirsyah Hosen

PART 1 FAMILY LAW AND COURTS

1 Colonial legacies: family laws in Singapore and Australia 13 Ann Black

2 The application of kafala in the West 48

Kieran Mclean Eadie

3 ‘The best interests of the child’: critical analysis of the Libyan

High Court decision 77

Ali Omar Ali Mesrati

4 ADR and Islamic law: the cases of the UK and Singapore 120 Arif A.

PART 2 PROPERTY AND BUSINESS

5 Corporate social responsibility and workplace casualties in

Bangladesh: an appraisal of Islamic principles as a potential solution 141

S. M. Solaiman

6 Business in Islam: revisiting Islamic banking practices in

Bangladesh 159

Afroza Begum

7 Property law and trusts (waqf) in Iran 178

Hossein Esmaeili

PART 3 CRIMINAL LAW AND JUSTICE

8 Corporate criminal liability in Saudi Arabia 201

Mohammed Fahad Aljiday Alsubaie

9 Blasphemy and apostasy laws in the Muslim world: a critical analysis 217

Faisal Kutty

10 Restorative justice in Islamic law: application in Malaysian

legal history and the criminal justice system 250

Hanifah Haydar Ali Tajuddin, Nasimah Hussin and Majdah Zawawi

PART 4 ETHICS, HEALTH AND SCIENCES

11 Genetic engineering and ethics in Muslim communities: case

studies from Tunisia and Saudi Arabia 273

Nurussyariah Hammado

12 Collective ijtihad on health issues in Indonesia 289

Nadirsyah Hosen

13 Halal and other codes: can religion, science and ethics guide

legal regulation? 307

Richard Mohr

PART 5 ARTS AND EDUCATION

14 Finding the Islam in Islamic art: the relationship between

Islamic law and artistic practice 331

Mia Corbett

15 The lawfulness of music in contemporary Indonesian debate 350 Neneng Yanti Khozanatu Lahpan

16 Educational rights for women in Saudi Arabia 371

Maan Abdul Haq Khutani

PART 6 COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SPHERES

17 Progressive Islam in Europe: a critical analysis of the unique

nature of Bosnia and Hercegovina’s Islamic practice 405

Richard Burgess

18 Khutbahs and fatwas in colonial Indonesia and Malaya 428

Muhamad Ali

Index

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