(Source: Brill)
Brill has published a book dealing with the role of Islam in the history of international law, co-edited by our former ESIL IG president, Prof. dr. Ignacio de la Rasilla (Wuhan University Institute of International Law).
ABOUT THE BOOK
International Law and Islam: Historical Explorations offers a unique opportunity to examine the Islamic contribution to the development of international law in historical perspective. The role of Islam in its various intellectual, political and legal manifestations within the history of international law is part of the exciting intellectual renovation of international and global legal history in the dawn of the twenty-first century. The present volume is an invitation to engage with this thriving development after ‘generations of prejudiced writing’ regarding the notable contribution of Islam to international law and its history.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Ignacio de la Rasilla, Ph.D. (2011) Geneva, is Han Depei Chair Professor of International Law at Wuhan University, Institute of International Law. He has published extensively on international law and its history including In the Shadow of Vitoria (Brill-Nijhoff, 2017). Ayesha Shahid, Ph.D. (2008) University of Warwick, UK, is Senior Lecturer in Law at Coventry Law School, Coventry University. She has published extensively on Islamic Law and Human Rights and is the author ofSilent Voices, Untold Stories (OUP, 2010).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ignacio de la Rasilla, Islam and the Global Turn in the History of International Law
Ignacio de la Rasilla, The Protean Historical Mirror of International Law
Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, How Should International Lawyers Study Islamic Law and Its Contribution to International Law?
Ayesha Shahid, An Exploration of the ‘Global’ History of International Law: Some Perspectives from within the Islamic Legal Traditions
John D. Haskell, Subjectivity and Structures: The Challenges of Methodology in the Study of the History of International Law and Religion
Robert Kolb, The Basis of Obligation in Treaties of Ancient Cultures – Pactum Est Servandum?
Jean Allain, Khadduri as Gatekeeper of the Islamic Law of Nations?
Ignacio Forcada Barona, In Search of the Lost Influence: Islamic Thinkers and the Spanish Origins of International Law
Pierre-Alexandre Cardinal & Frédéric Mégret, The Other ‘Other’: Moors, International Law and the Origin of the Colonial Matrix
Luigi Nuzzo, Law, Religion and Power: Texts and Discourse of Conquest
Ilias Bantekas, Land Rights in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman State Succession Treaties
Haniff Ahamat & Nizamuddin Alias, The Evolution of the Personality of the Malay Sultanate States
Matthias Vanhullebusch, On the Abodes of War and Peace in the Islamic Law of War: Fact or Fiction?
Mohamed Badar, Ahmed Al-Dawoody & Noelle Higgins, The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law of Rebellion: Its Significance to the Current International Humanitarian Law Discourse
