Structure and Use of This Bibliography
The structure of this bibliography and the way it should be used are rather straightforward and follow to a large degree the Al-Zwaini/Peters bibliography of Islamic law of 1994.
Most important, the bibliographical entries are consecutively numbered. There are two main parts. Part one covers entries listed by themes in alphabetical order from “abortion” to “zina”, with an introductory general part preceding them. All entries that can be connected to a given country, region, era or organisation are to be found in part two. If the title of an article or a book contains several keywords, those indicating a country or an era receive preference and are thus listed in part two, otherwise they can be found in part one. Both parts cover, on the one hand, the main issues of Islamic criminal law (hudud, qisas, ta'zlr...), and on the other hand they reflect the wide range of titles I found when compiling this bibliography. They were at times new and unexpected, but are evidence of the rapid development of the field. The unsuspecting reader may be surprised to find chapter titles such as “Germany” and “United States of America”; however, existing scholarly articles linking these countries to Islamic criminal law justify separate chapters. The formatting of the entries follows the Index Islamicus and its protocol.The Arabic article Al-, al- El-, el-, An- etc., in author names is disregarded in its hyphenated form. Thus “An-Na'im” is listed under N, El-Baradie under B and so forth. Names beginning with an unhyphenated Al, El etc., e.g. Alkali, Eltantawi will be listed under A and E.
The second set of tools to orientate the user of this bibliography are the Index of Authors and the Index of Subjects and People. It goes without saying that many of the bibliographical entries cover much more than what the titles betray. I have, therefore, as far as possible checked the texts at hand as to the subject matters they contain and listed them accordingly. Thus, while the table of contents gives a solid first orientation to the user of this bibliography, the two indices unlock the richness of the material covered.
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