About the Author

Baber Johansen, Ph.D. (1965) in Islamic Studies, Habilitation (1972), Berlin, is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales in Paris for 'Structures normatives et histoire en Islam'. He has published extensively on the history of Islamic Law including The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent (London, Croom Helm, 1988) and (together with D.J. Stewart and A. Singer) Law and Society in Islam (Princeton, Markus Wiener Publishers, 1996).

Reviews

'Baber Johansen is perhaps the most original scholar currently working in the field of classical Islamic…'
Colin Imber, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2001.