Commercial Contracts in Muslim Countries of the Middle East: A Comparison with the United States
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Jacqueline McCormack
Abstract
Outside of the common law and civil law legal traditions, what is termed “Islamic law” forms one of the world's largest legal systems. There are more than one billion Muslims world-wide, and millions of those Muslims populate some of the world's richest trading zones. As of 2005, the Gulf Cooperation Council (G.C.C.), comprised of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates, was the United States' fifth largest trading partner.
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- Miscellaneous
- Editorial Comment
- The International Calendar
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- Commercial Contracts in Muslim Countries of the Middle East: A Comparison with the United States
- Islamic Governance, Capital Structure, and Equity Finance: Examining the Possibilities of American Financial Sharī'ah Boards
- On Law and the Transition to Market: The Case of Egypt
- Behavioral Economic Issues in American and Islamic Marriage & Divorce Law
- Adding Fuel to the Fire: Justifying Iraq's Media Incitement Laws
- The Rights of Muslim Women in the Middle East: A Pathfinder
- Book Reviews
- Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations
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- The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law, 2nd ed.
- A Modern Approach to Islam, 2nd ed.
- The Right to Self-Determination and Post-Colonial Governance: The Case of the Netherland Antilles and Aruba.
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