Author Approved Established in London in 2002, the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations aims to strengthen research and teaching about the heritages of Muslim societies as they have evolved over time, and to examine the challenges these societies face in today's globalising world. It also seeks to create opportunities for interaction among academics, traditionally trained scholars, innovative thinkers and leaders, in an effort to promote dialogue and build bridges. Muslim Civilisations Abstracts Series Editor: Aptin Khanbaghi This series presents an innovative reference catalogue of annotated bibliographies and abstracts of books published during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By translating these in up to eight languages, the MCA series aims not only to represent the diversity of Muslim societies, but also to make accessible to scholars, students and the public at large the plethora of existing scholarship about Muslim civilisations. INTERPRETATIONS OF LAW AND ETHICS IN MUSLIM CONTEXTS Edited by Aptin Khanbaghi This volume brings together some of the many unheard voices of scholars studying law and ethics in Muslim contexts. It features over 200 abstracts with bibliographical details in three languages (English, Arabic and Turkish), giving access to information about original post-1800 scholarly publications from Muslim contexts in the fields of law and ethics from different Muslim societies. The volume highlights the diversity of interpretations of law and ethics across these societies and creates access to, and reinforces communication between, scholars and institutions where the sharing of knowledge and information has often been hindered by language barriers. Aptin Khanbaghi is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, the Aga Khan University (UK). He is the author of /The Fire, the Star and the Cross: Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran/ (2006) and

This volume is divided into three sections, by language (English, Turkish and Arabic); each section contains an Introduction followed by the Abstracts.