Abstract

Abstract This chapter examines the sources and principles of Islamic law. A broad understanding of the sources and principles of Islamic law is prerequisite to an examination of the legal foundations of Islamic finance. Islamic law comprises a complex and vast body of doctrine that has taken shape in extremely varied circumstances for well over a millennium as part and parcel of an evolutionary process still vigorously underway. The chapter then describes the technical terminology employed by Muslim jurists across the entire field of Islamic law. All the technical terminology is in Arabic but exact or rough equivalents can be found in other legal systems. The chapter also looks at the legal concepts relevant to Islamic finance from a historical perspective as the point of departure for an exposition of the Islamic law of contract, for which they provide the conceptual underpinnings.

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