Centered on legal discourses of Islam's first six centuries, this book analyzes juristic writings on the topic of rape.

Hina Azam is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She has published articles in the Journal of Law and Religion, the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, and Comparative Islamic Studies. She has contributed to the edited volumes Feminism, Law, and Religion (2013) and A Jihad for Justice: Honoring the Work and Life of Amina Wadud (2012), as well as to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law (forthcoming).

Introduction; 1. Sexual violation in the Late Antique Near East; 2. Tracing rape in early Islamic law; 3. Rape as a property crime - the Mäliki¿ approach; 4. Rape as a moral transgression - the H¿anafi¿ approach; 5. Proving rape in H¿anafi¿ law - substance, evidence, procedure; 6. Proving rape in Mäliki¿ law - evidence, procedure, penalty; Conclusion.