Mohammed Hashim Kamali

Books:

1. Law in Afghanistan: A Study of the Constitutions, Matrimonial Law and the Judiciary, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1985, pp. 265.

2. Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, Pelanduk Publications, Kuala Lumpur, 1989, pp. XXII + 524. The Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, UK, published the 2nd revised edn. of this book in 1991. Reprint by Ilmiah Publishers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2002.

3. Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (third revised and expanded edition), The Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, UK; 2003, 553 pages.

4. Freedom of Expression in Islam, Kuala Lumpur: Berita Publishing, 1994, pp.302. In 1996 the Mizan Press, Bandung, Indonesia, published an Indonesian translation of this book in 384 pages.

5. Freedom of Expression in Islam (2nd revised and enhanced edn.) by the Islamic Texts Society in Cambridge, pp.349. Reprint by Ilmiah Publishers, KL, Malaysia, , 1998.

6. Punishment in Islamic Law: An Enquiry into the Hudud Bill of Kelantan. Kuala Lumpur: Institute for Policy Research, 1995, pp. 178. Reprint by Ilmiah Publishers, KL, Malaysia, 2000. A Malay trans. by Norhayati Hj. Kaprawi & Zaitun Kasim, Ilmiah Publisher, K.L. 2003, pp. 2004.

7. Istihsan (Juristic Preference) And Its Application to Contemporary Issues, Jeddah: Islamic Research and Training Institute (Islamic Development Bank), 1997, pp. 148.

8. Freedom, Equality and Justice in Islam, Kuala Lumpur Ilmiah Publishers, 1999, and the Islamic Texts Society, pp. 236. Second revised edn. Cambridge: the Islamic Texts Society, 2002.

9. The Dignity of Man: An Islamic Perspective, Kuala Lumpur Ilmiah Publishers, 1999, pp. 106. Second enhanced edn., published by the Islamic Texts Society of Cambridge, 2002.

10. Islamic Law in Malaysia: Issues and Developments, Kuala Lumpur Ilmiah Publishers, 2000, pp. 345. (With a Foreword by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia).

11. Islamic Commercial Law: An Analysis of Futures and Options, Cambridge: the Islamic Texts Society, 2000. Reprint by Ilmiah Publishers of Kuala Lumpur, 2002, pp.253.

12. Hadith Methodology: Authenticity, Compilation, Classification and Criticism of Hadith, Kuala Lumpur: Ilmiah Publisher, 2002, pp.332.

13. Equity and Fairness in Islam, Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2005, pp.x +141. Also Kuala Lumpur: Ilmiah Publishers, 2006.

14. A Textbook of Hadith Studies, Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 2005, pp.xii-257.

15. An Introduction to Shari’ah, Kuala Lumpur: Ilmiah Publishers:2006, pp.304. (A Eouropean/American edition of a revised version of this book is due to be published by Oneworld Publications, U.K.)

16. Readings in Islamic Constitutional Law I, Comp. M.H. Kamali & M. Arifin, pp. 600, an in-house publication of the International Islamic University, Malaysia, 1991.

17. Monograph entitled “Haqq-e Milkiyat dar Islam (Right of ownership in Islam),” in partial fulfillment of my B.A. Degree, Kabul University, Faculty of Law and Political Science (unpublished ms. in Dari), 1965.

18. Translation of two college texts on Islamic Law from Dari into Pashto published by Kabul University Press in 1963 and 1964 respectively.

Articles:

Waza'if-e yak Saranwal (Duties of a Public Attorney),” Qada (Supreme Court Monthly, Kabul), no. 3 (1349/1970) pp. 23-37.

20. “Divorce And Women's Rights: Some Muslim Interpretations of Sura 2: 228,” The Muslim World 74 (1984), 85-100.

21. “The Citizen and State in Islamic Law,” Syariah Law Journal no. 3 (Kuala Lumpur, April 1986), 15-47.

22. “Islamic Personal Law,” The Encyclopedia of Religion, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1987, Vol. 7, pp. 446-53.

23. “Qiyas (Analogy),” The Encyclopedia of Religion, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1987, Vol. 12, pp. 128-30.

24. “Madhhab (Legal School),” The Encyclopedia of Religion (as above), Vol. 9, pp. 66-70.

25. “Have we Neglected the Sharicah Law Doctrine of Maslahah,” Islamic Studies, Vol. 27 (1988), 287-305.

26. “Siyasah Sharciyyah or the Policies of Islamic Government,” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 6, (1989), 59-81.

27. “The Approved and Disapproved Varieties of Ra'y (Personal Opinion) in Islam,” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 7 (1990), 39-64.

28. “The Limits of Power in an Islamic State,” Islamic Studies, Vol. 28 (1989), 323-353.

29. “Sources, Nature and Objectives of the Sharicah,” The Islamic Quarterly, Vol. XXXIII, (1989), 215-236.

30. “Freedom of Religion in Islamic Law,” Capital Law Review (Columbus, Ohio), Vol. 21 (1992), 63-82.

31. “Appellate Review and Judicial Independence in Islamic Law,” in Chibli Malhat ed. Islamic Public Law, London: Graham & Trotman, 1993, pp. 49-85.

32. “Freedom of Expression in Islam: An Analysis of Fitnah,” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 10, no. 2 (1993), 17-41.

33. “Freedom of Association: The Islamic Perspective,” IIUM Law Journal, Vol.3, no. 1 (1993), 23-37.

34. “Characteristics of the Islamic State,” Islamic Studies 32 (1993), 17-41.

35. “Sharicah and the Challenge of Modernity,” IKIM Journal (Kuala Lumpur) Vol. 2, no. 1 (1994), 1-27. Reprint by the Islamic University Quarterly (London), Vol. 2, no. 1 (1995), 10-37.

36. “Tascir or Price Control in Islamic Law,” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 11, (1994), 25-38.

37. “The Islamic State and Its Constitution,” in edn. Norani Othman, Sharicah Law and the Modern Nation State, Kuala Lumpur: SIS Forum, 1994, pp. 45-69.

38. “Konsep hudud luar tidak terhad,” being the Malay translation of my article “The Hudud Concept,” serialised in 3 instalments in the KL, Malaysia, broadsheet Berita Minggu (11.6.1995) and Berita Harian daily of the 12th and 13th June, 1995.

39. “An Analysis of Haqq (Right) in Islamic Law,” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 10 (1993), 338-367.

40. “The Continued Domination of Taqlid in Islamic Commercial Law: A Case Study of Futures Trading,” Islamic Thought And Scientific Creativity, Vol.6 (September 1995), no. 3, 7-37.

41. “Fiqh and Adaptation to Social Reality,” The Muslim World Vol. LXXXVI, (1996), pp. 62-85.

42. “Methodological Issues in Islamic Jurisprudence,” Arab Law Quarterly, Vol. 11, (1996), 1-34.

43. “Islamic Commercial Law: An Analysis of Futures,” The American J. of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 13, (1996), pp. 197-225.

44. “A Comparative Analysis of Social Justice in Western Philosophy and the Sharicah,” in Azizan Bahari and Chandra Muzaffar, eds. Keadilan Sosial (Social Justice), KL, Malaysia: Institute for Policy Research 1996, pp. 16-49.

45. “A Sharicah Perspective on Futures,” a feature article in New Horizon (London, no. 64 June 1997), pp. 3-7.

46. “Islamic Commercial Law: An Analysis of Options,” The American J. of Islamic Social Sciences 14 (1997), 17-39.

47. “Protection Against Disease: A Sharicah Perspective AIDS,” IIUM Law Journal, Vol. 5 (1995), 1-20.

48. “Sharicah As Understood by the Classical Jurists,” IIUM Law Journal, Vol. 6, Number 1&2 (1998), 39-88.

49. “Punishment in Islamic Law: A Critique of the Hudud Bill of Kelantan, Malaysia,” Arab Law Quarterly (1998), 203-234.

50. “The Scope of Diversity and Ikhtilaf (Juristic Disagreement) in the Sharicah,” Islamic Studies 37 (1998), 315-338.

51. “Islamic Law in Malaysia: Issues and Developments,” Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Vol. 4 (1997-1998), London, UK: Kluwer Law International, 1998, pp. 153-180.

52. “Maqasid al-Sharicah: The Objectives of Islamic Law,” Islamic Studies, 38 (1999), 193-209.

53. “Prospects for an Islamic Derivatives Market in Malaysia” Thunderbird International Business Review (University of Austin, Texas), Vol. 41 (1999), 523-540.

54. “The Permissibility and Potential of Developing Islamic Derivatives as Financial Instruments,” IIUM Journal of Economics and Management, Vol. 7, no. 2 (1999), 73-86.

55. “Law and Society: The Interplay of Revelation in the Sharicah,” chapter published in ed. John Esposito, The Oxford History of Islam, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 107-155.

56. “Uncertainty and Risk-Taking (Gharar) in Islamic Law,” IIUM Law Journal, Vol. 7, no. 2 (1999), 1-21.

57. “The Right to Personal Safety and the Principle of Legality in the Sharicah,” Islamic Studies 39:2 (2000) 249-289.

58. Invited article “Islam, Iconography and the Taliban,” published in German translation in Berliner Zeitung (full-page article, magazine section), 10/11 March 2001, p. 5. The English version was published by Islam 21 (London), August 2001.

59. “Issues in the Legal Theory of Usul and Prospects for Reform,” Islamic Studies 41 (2001) 1-21.

60. “Issues in the Understanding of Jihad and Ijtihad,” Islamic Studies 41(2002) 617-635. A modified version of this also appeared as a chapter in Isu Dan Proses Pembukaan Minda Umat Melayu Islam, KL, Malaysia, Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka, 2003, pp.213-240.

61. “The Johor Fatwa on Mandatory HIV Testing,” IIUM Law Journal, Vol.9 (2001), 99-117.

62. "Islam, Rationality and Science," Islam and Science, vol.1 no.1 June 2003, 56-77.

63. "Islam in the Constitutions of Afghanistan,"Bayan Journal (Kabul) vol.6, no.1(July 2003), 1-15.

64. "Causality and Divine Action: The Islamic Perspective," Religion and Law Review (New Delhi) vols X-XI (2001-2002), 53-78.

65. "De Pohand Mohammad Hashim Kamali Landa Pezhandena,"(in Pashto), Asisi Qanun (Constitution journal - Kabul), July 2003, pp.21-23.

66. "Nokati Chand dar bara-e Qanun-e Asasi wa I'lamiya-e Jahani Huquq-e Bashar," (in Dari), (some aspects of the constitution of Afghanistan seen from the Perspective of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), Asasi Qanun, vol.3 (September 2003), 8-13.

67. “Harmonisation of Sharicah and Civil Law: The Framework and Modus Operandi,” IIUM Law Journal II (2003), 149-169.

68. “Istihsan and the Renewal of Islamic Law,” Islamic Studies 43 (2004), pp. 561-581.

69. “The Islamic State: Origins, Definition and Salient Attributes,” in ed. K.S. Nathan & Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Islam in Southeast Asia: Political, Social and Strategic Challenges for the 21st Century, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005, pp. 278-298.

70. See also a joint “Preface” and “Introduction” to the previous work by K.S. Nathan & Mohammad Hashim Kamali, pp. IX-XXIV.

71. “Conclusion” to the previous book edited by K.S. Nathan and myself, pp. 347-354.

72. “Civilian and Democratic Dimensions of Governance in Islam, “As-Shajarah” 9 (2004), 125-145.

73. “Legal Maxims and other Genres of Literature in Islamic Jurisprudence,” Arab Law Quarterly 20, no.1 (2006), 77-101.

74. “Reading the Signs: a Qur’anic Perspective on Thinking,” Islam and Science 4 (winter 2006), 181-205.

Occasional papers:

72. Characteristics of the Islamic State, Occasional Paper 3, Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad 1993, pp. 24.

73. Appellate Review and Judicial Independence in Islamic Law, Occasional Paper 4, Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad, 1993, pp.30.

74. Maqasid al-Shari’ah: The objectives of Islamic Law, Occasional paper 33, Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad, 1999.

75. The Right to Personal Safety the Principle of Legality in the Shari’ah, Occasional Paper no.41, 2001, Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad, pp.45.

76. Issues in the Legal Theory of Usul and Prospects for Reform, Occasional Paper no. 43, 2001, Islamic Research Institute, pp.23

77. Istihsan and the Renewal of Islamic Law, Occasional Paper 58, 2004, Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad, pp.39

78. “Fanaticism and its Manifestations in Muslim Societies,” ed. by Aftab Ahmad Malik, The Empire and the Crescent, UK (2003), 175-207.

79. “Fiqhi Issues in Commodity Futures,” ed. by Munawar Iqbal and Tariqullah Khan, Financial Engineering and Islamic Contracts, NY (2005), 20-57.

80. “Islam and its Sharica in the Afghan Constitution 2004 with Special Reference to Personal Law,” ed. by Nadjma Yassari, The Sharica in the Constitutions of Afghanistan, Iran and Egypt – Implications for Private Law, Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005, 23-43.

81. “Hadith,” a 7,000 word Article published in The Encyclopedia of Religion, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 2005.

82. Wrote a “Foreword” to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s book, Islam Hadhari: A Model Approach for Development and Progress, Kuala Lumpur: MPH, 2006, pp. xiii-xx.

83. “Legal Maxims and Other Genres of Literature in Islamic Jurisprudence,” Arab Law Quarterly 20 (200), 77-102.

84. “Reading the Signs: A Qur’anic Perspective on Thinking,” Islam and Science 6 (2006), 101-124.

85. “The Shari’a: Law as the Way of God,” chapter in ed. Vincent J. Cornell, Voices of Islam (5 vols.), vol. I: Voices of Tradition, Wesport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007, 149-183.

86. “A Shari’ah Analysis of Issues in Islamic Leasing,” J. of King Abdulaziz Univerity Islamic Economics , vol.20 ( 2007/1428), 3-22.

87. “Commodity Futures: An Islamic Legal Analysis,” Thunderbird International Business Review, Vol.49(2007), 309-339.

II.4. Publication Continued: Book Reviews
88. M.H. Kamali, “Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans,” by A.S. Ahmed. Religious Studies Review, (Hanover: Pennsylvania), 1982, Vol. 7, no. 3, p. 268.

89. “Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law,” by I. Goldziher, trans. Andreas and Ruth Hamore. Religious Studies Review, 1982, Vol. 8, no. 1, p. 91.

90. “Arkan Huquq al-Insan fi’l-Islam,” by S.R. Mahmassani, Sharicah Law Journal, no. 3 (April 1986), 118-124.

91 “Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia,” by Ahmad Ibrahim et. al., Comp., IIU Law Journal Vol.2, no.1 (1992), 89-93.

92. Review of Structural Characteristics of Islamic Penal Law by Hedeaki Homma, International University of Japan: Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 10 (1993), 547-551.

93. Review of Imran A.K. Nyazee, Islamic Legal Theories, Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute 1994, pp. 369, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 12 (1995), 413-420.

94. Abdullah ‘Alwi Haji Hassan, Sales and Contracts in Early Islamic Commercial Law. Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute, 1994, XVI + 266 pp. (Oxford) Journal of Islamic Studies, January 1997, pp. 92-95.

95. Colin Imber, Ebu’s-Sucud: The Islamic Legal Tradition, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997, pp. 288, Muslim World Book Review 18, No. 4 (1998), 42-47.

96. Wael B. Hallaq, Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam, Aldershot (UK): Varorium, 1994, pp. 349, (Oxford) Journal of Islamic Studies Vol. 10 (1999), 183-187.

97. Imran A.K. Nyazee, Islamic Law of Business Organisation: Partnership, Islamabad: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Islamic Research Institute, 1997, pp. 347, King Abdulaziz University Journal of Islamic Economics 12 (1420/2000), 75-82.

98. Nicholas Dylan Ray, Arab Islamic Banking and the Renewal of Islamic Law, London: Graham & Trotman, 1995, pp. 195, King Abdulaziz University Journal of Islamic Economics, Jeddah Vol. 11 (1999), 69-77.

Edited works:

99. Edited the English translation of Muhammad Mukhtar al-Sulami (Grand Mufti of Tunisia), Qiyas and Its Contemporary Applications (al-Qiyas wa Tatbiqatuh al-Mu’asirah), Jeddah: Islamic Research and Training Institute, 2005.

100. Islam in Southeast Asia: Political, Social and Strategic Challenges for the 21st Century, edited by K.S. Nathan and Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 2005- Nathan and Kamali’s joint Preface, Introduction and Conclusion to this vol. appear at pp. ix-xxiii & 347 - 354.