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• Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law)

• The Rights of Women in Islam, by Murtaza Mutahhari (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Woman and Her Rights, by Murtaza Mutahhari, trans. by M. A. Ansari (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Shariah, the Threat to America: An Exercise in Competitive Analysis (Report of Team B II; Washington: Center for Security Policy, 2010), ed. by Clare Lopez (PDF at centerforsecuritypolicy.org)
• A Summary of Rulings by Grand Ayatullah Nasir Makarem Shirazi: A Translation of His Original Work, Zubdah al-Ahkaam (second edition, c2006), by Nasir Makarim Shirazi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Fiqh and Fuqaha: An Introduction to Fiqh Containing Forty Four Life Sketches of the Great Past Masters (HTML at al-islam.org)
• Jurisprudence and Its Principles, by Murtaza Mutahhari, ed. by Laleh Bakhtiar, trans. by Salman Tawhidi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Jurisprudence Made Easy, by 'Abd al-Hadi Muhammad Taqi Hakim, trans. by Najim Khafaji, contrib. by 'Ali al-Husayni Sistani (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Questions on Jurisprudence (Masa'il Fiqhiyya), by Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din, trans. by Liyakatali Takim (HTML at al-islam.org)
• A Code of Practice for Muslims in the West, by 'Abd al-Hadi Muhammad Taqi Hakim, trans. by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi, contrib. by 'Ali al-Husayni Sistani (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist, by Ruhollah Khomeini, trans. by Hamid Algar (multiple formats at al-islam.org)

• Muwatta, by Malik ibn Anas (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Muwatta, by Malik ibn Anas (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Rachel M. Scott (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Rachel M. Scott (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Sharia Law or "One Law for All"? (c2009), by Denis MacEoin, ed. by David G. Green, contrib. by Neil Addison (PDF at Civitas)

• Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory (1903), by Duncan Black Macdonald (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• A Short History of 'Ilmul Usul, by Muhammad Baqir Sadr (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• A Divine Perspective on Rights: A Commentary on Imam Sajjad's "The Treatise of Rights" (original treatise in Arabic, with translation and commentary in English), by Zayn al-'Abidin 'Ali ibn al-Husayn and Ghodratullah Mashayekhi, trans. by Ali Peiravi and Lisa Zaynab Morgan (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• The Methodology of Hizb ut-Tahrir for Change, by Hizb ut-Tahrir (PDF at hizb-ut-tahrir.se PDF at hizb-ut-tahrir.se)

• Fatwas and Court Judgments: A Genre Analysis of Arabic Legal Opinion (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Ahmed Fakhri (PDF at Ohio State)

• Fatwas and Court Judgments: A Genre Analysis of Arabic Legal Opinion (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Ahmed Fakhri (PDF at Ohio State)

• Christians: Why We Reject Muslim Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v. 7; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2008), by Jan Harm Boer (PDF with commentary at lulu.com)
• Muslims: Why Muslim Sharia Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v. 6; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2007), by Jan Harm Boer (PDF with commentary at lulu.com)

• Christians: Why We Reject Muslim Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v. 7; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2008), by Jan Harm Boer (PDF with commentary at lulu.com)
• Muslims: Why Muslim Sharia Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v. 6; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2007), by Jan Harm Boer (PDF with commentary at lulu.com)

• Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria 1999-2006: A Sourcebook (2007), ed. by Philip Ostien (PDF files at sharia-in-africa.net)

• A Summary of Rulings by Grand Ayatullah Nasir Makarem Shirazi: A Translation of His Original Work, Zubdah al-Ahkaam (second edition, c2006), by Nasir Makarim Shirazi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• A Code of Practice for Muslims in the West, by 'Abd al-Hadi Muhammad Taqi Hakim, trans. by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi, contrib. by 'Ali al-Husayni Sistani (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Jurisprudence Made Easy, by 'Abd al-Hadi Muhammad Taqi Hakim, trans. by Najim Khafaji, contrib. by 'Ali al-Husayni Sistani (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Fatwas and Court Judgments: A Genre Analysis of Arabic Legal Opinion (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Ahmed Fakhri (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Brinkley Messick (HTML at UC Press)

• La Doctrine Musulmane de l'Abus des Droits (Étude d'Histoire Juridique et de Droit Comparé) (in French; Lyon: H. Georg ; Paris: P. Geuthner, 1913), by Mahmoud Fathy, contrib. by Edouard Lambert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Notion de l'Abus des Droits dans la Jurisprudence Musulmane (doctoral dissertation in French; 1912), by Mahmoud Fathy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sharia Law or "One Law for All"? (c2009), by Denis MacEoin, ed. by David G. Green, contrib. by Neil Addison (PDF at Civitas)

• A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Michael G. Peletz (HTML at UC Press)

• States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco (2001), by M. Charrad (HTML at UC Press)

• Principles of Marriage and Family Ethics, by Ibrahim Amini (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Temporary Marriage in Islamic Law, by Abu 'l-Qasim Gurji (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• In Their Own Words, Voices of Jihad: Compilation and Commentary (2008), by David Aaron (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Jihad Beyond Islam (Oxford, UK and New York: Berg, c2006), by Gabriele Marranci (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Jihad and Islam in World War I: Studies on the Ottoman Jihad on the Centenary of Snouck Hurgronje's "Holy War Made in Germany" (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2016), ed. by Erik Jan Zürcher, contrib. by Léon Buskens, Mustafa Aksakal, Tilman Lüdke, Mehmet Beşikçi, M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Erol Köroğlu, Nicole van Os, Martin Gussone, Hans Theunissen, Joshua Teitelbaum, Umar Ryad, and Ahmed K. Al-Rawi
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Terrorism in Asymmetrical Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects (2008), by Ekaterina Stepanova (PDF with commentary at sipri.org)
• Final Report of the Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel (committee print; 2015), by United States House Committee on Homeland Security (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• Peace and Jihad in Islam, by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• The Holy War "Made in Germany" (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by C. Snouck Hurgronje, trans. by Joseph E. Gillet, contrib. by Richard J. H. Gottheil
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Sky Lighter (Ontario, CA: Chick Publications, c2003), by Jack T. Chick (page images with commentary at chick.com)

• Sir Thomas Elyot's The Defence of Good Women (Oxford, OH: Anchor Press, 1940), by Thomas Elyot, ed. by Edwin J. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divinity of Woman: Her Superiority Over Man (third edition revised; Los Angeles: Filipino Federation of America, 1927), by Hilario Camino Moncado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Can Woman Regenerate Society? (London: John W. Parker, 1844), by Anne Richelieu Lamb Dryden (page images at Google)
• Do They Really Respect Us? and Other Essays (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1912), by Margaret Collier Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Epistles on Women, by Lucy Aikin (HTML at Michigan)
• An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex: In Which Are Inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c., In a Letter to a Lady (attributed variously to Astell or Drake; London: Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson, 1696), contrib. by Mary Astell and Judith Drake (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Female Pre-Eminence: or, The Dignity and Excellency of That Sex, Above the Male (in Latin and English, based on editions of 1529 and 1670), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, trans. by Henry Care (HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers, by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland (HTML at Virginia)
• The Nature of Woman (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by J. Lionel Tayler, contrib. by William Caldwell Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Powder-Puff: A Ladies' Breviary (New York: Duffield and Co., 1910), by Franz Blei (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World; To Which Are Added Rules for Determining the Precise Figure, the Degree of Beauty, the Habits, and the Age of Women, Notwithstanding the Aids and Disguise of Dress (Boston: T. Abbot, 1841) (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Sum of Feminine Achievement: A Critical and Analytical Study of Woman's Contribution to the Intellectual Progress of the World (Boston: The Stratford Company, 1917), by W. A. Newman Dorland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman in All Ages and in All Countries (10 volumes; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1907-1908), contrib. by Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Edward B. Pollard, Pierce Butler, John R. Effinger, Hugo P. Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, and John Rouse Larus (Gutenberg texts and illustrated HTML)
• Women and Other Women: Essays in Wisdom (New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by Hildegarde Hawthorne
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Men, Women and Emotions (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences, by Stephen B. Clark (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)

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