MA Sultan - محمد سلطان
Reading this book was very entertaining for me since it is almost one of the most accurate books analyzing the Islamic jurisdictions during the nineteenth century. For those who haven't read the book yet, it shows many cases where women were going through unfamiliar situations for Islamic law, and how the jurists handled or inspected those cases. For example, the book states the strange circumstances such as a woman married to a man and then the man died without declaring his marriage to the people. Would she be deemed as a lawful wife in front of the law, particularly if there is no documentation about the marriage or any witnesses?
The reader should have general information about Islamic law because the book is dealing with a particular school of the Islamic jurisprudence which is the Hanafi School. Such school was followed by most of the ottoman judges, so knowing the basics of such school would make the life very easy especially for someone who is exposed to such genre for the first time. The author divided the research into five main topics, namely, the law or the court and how it functions, Marriage, Divorce, Mothering and Fathering, and Sexuality and reproduction.
I would totally recommend this book for you since it is well written and easy to digest if you are familiar with the topic or has read some article about it. Unlike most of the difficult to read a book about law, this book is very comprehensive and direct to the point. Also, the stated cases in the book are well explained and analyzed with simple English which implies that the author has done extensive research about the topic. Finally, even though those cases occurred in the nineteenth century, most of them are still debatable in the current time which could raise a lot of question marks about the topic.
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