Proprietary partnership (Sharikat al-milk) -- The Ḥanafī Mufāwaḍa partnership -- Ḥanafī limited investment partnership ('Inān) -- Mālikī partnership -- The commenda (Muḍāraba, Qirāḍ, Muqāraḍa) -- Islamic law : theory and practice
Summary
From the point of view of economic history, the ideal way to study any institution of commercial law would be to compare the information contained in legal codes and treatises with the material relating to its application in economic life as manifested by actual contracts, letters, and business records found in archives and other repositories. In the case of the early centuries of the Islamic period, available sources unfortunately preclude such a procedure. Theoretical legal texts exist in abundance, but any corresponding documentary material is for all practical purposes non-extant. In or
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index
