RELG 098. Islamic Law & Society

A survey of the history of Islamic law and its developments, with particular attention to the ways Islamic legal principles were formed, organized, operated in practice, and changed over time. It will focus on issues in Islamic legal theory, methodology, constitutional law, personal law, and family law that have had the greatest relevance to our contemporary world. This course functions as a basic introduction to the Islamic legal system in its pre-modern and contemporary forms. The course will also provide comparative discussion of the contrasts between Islamic legal theory and positive law and European and American legal and constitutional thought.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for MDST
Spring 2026. al-Jamil.
Catalog chapter: Religion
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion

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