Mohammad H. Fadel is Full Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, which he joined in January 2006. From 2006 to 2016, he was Canada Research Chair for the Law and Economics of Islamic Law. Professor Fadel wrote his PhD dissertation on legal process in medieval Islamic law at the University of Chicago, and received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.

• Introduction Islamic Law and the State1.Nature, Revelation and the State in Pre-Modern Sunni Theological, Legal and Political Thought2. Islamic Law Reform: Between Reinterpretation and Democracy3. The Implications of Fiqh al-Aqalliyyāt (Jurisprudence of Minorities) for the Rights of Non-Muslim Minorities in Muslim-Majority CountriesIslamic Jurisprudence4. The Social Logic of Taqlīd and the Rise of the Mukhtaṣar5. “Istafti qalbaka wa in aftāka al-nāsu wa aftūka”: The Ethical Obligations of the Muqallid between Autonomy and Trust6. “Istiḥsān Is Nine-Tenths of the Law”: The Puzzling Relationship of Uṣūl to Furūʿ in the Mālikī Madhhab7. Is Historicism a Viable Strategy for Islamic Law Reform? The Case of ‘Never Shall a Folk Prosper Who Have Appointed a Woman to Rule Them’Islamic Law, Gender, and the Family8. Two Women, One Man: Knowledge, Power, and Gender in Medieval Sunni Legal Thought9. Reinterpreting the Guardian’s Role in the Islamic Contract of Marriage: The Case of the Mālikī School10. Political Liberalism, Islamic Family Law, and Family Law Pluralism11. Adoption in Islamic LawIslamic Law and the Market12. Ribā, Efficiency, and Prudential Regulation: Preliminary Thoughts13. Ethics and Finance: An Islamic Perspective in the Light of the Purposes of Islamic SharīʿaBibliography of Mohammad H. Fadel’s Published WorksIndex