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Professor Baber Johansen

Representative Publications

Articles in a Periodical

  1. Apostasy as objective and depersonalized fact: two recent Egyptian court judgments Record Number: 7291
  2. The Salam contract: Law and Capital Formation in the Abbasid Empire (11th and 12th Centuries) - ENGLISH VERSION Record Number: 7288
    Le contrat salam. Droit et formation du capital dans l’Empire abbasside (XIe et XIIe siècle) - FRENCH VERSION Record Number: 7288
  3. The relationship between the constitution, the sharîa and the fiqh in the adjudication of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court Record Number: 7289
  4. The valorization of the human body in Muslim Sunni law Record Number: 7299
  5. Vom Wort- zum Indizienbeweis: die Anerkennung der richterlichen Folter in islamischen Rechtsdoktrinen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts Record Number: 7294
  6. Can the Law Decide that Egypt is Conquered by Force? A Thirteenth-Century Debate on History as an Object of law

Books

  1. Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh Record Number: 7349
  2. The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent. The Peasants' Loss of Property Rights as Interpreted in the Hanafite Legal Literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods. Record Number: 7283

Shorter Works in Collection

  1. La mise en scène du vol par les juristes musulmans Record Number: 7317
  2. Legal literature and the problem of change: The case of the land rent Record Number: 7323
  3. Wahrheit und Geltungsanspruch: zur Begründung und Begrenzung der Autorität des Qadi-Urteils im islamischen Recht
  4. "A Perfect Law in an Imperfect Society. Ibn Taymiyya’s Concept of “Governance in the Name of the Sacred Law’”, in P. Bearman, W. Heinrichs, and B. G. Weiss (eds.), The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a, London: I.B. Tauris, 2008, pp. 259-294.
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