Hassan S. Khalilieh Knihy

This volume examines Islamic maritime law and practice of Muslim mariners during the classical period using Fatwa and Geniza sources. Maritime terminology, interrelationships of mariners, maritime commercial and military laws, territorial waters and the performance of Islamic religious duties at sea in the period are discussed.

In this pioneering research, Hassan S. Khalilieh sheds light on the often ignored Islamic law of the sea, and customary practices that were influential in the development of many of the fundamental principles of the pre-modern international law governing the legal status of the high seas and the territorial sea.