Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Frank E. Vogel -- Foreword by Ridwan Al-Sayyid -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Transliterations and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1: The Classical Islamic Law of Property -- The Classification of Lands in the Shari'ah -- 'Ushri Lands -- Kharaji Lands -- State Lands: The Private Domain -- Mawat Lands -- Public Lands and Servitudes -- Waqfs -- Land Tenure and Property Rights -- Private Property: Mulk Land -- Enjoyment of the Right of Ownership -- Acquisition and Disposition of the Right of Ownership -- Waqf Lands -- Holdings of State-Owned Lands -- Later Development of the Islamic System of Tenure in Egypt -- 2: Traditional Islamic Law in the Modern Era -- The System of Land Tenure Created by Muhammad Ali -- Kharaji Lands -- Masmuh Lands -- Rizqah Lands -- Ab'adiyah Lands -- Usiyah Lands -- The Traditional System of Land Tenure Prior to the Civil Codes -- State Lands -- Mulk Lands: Private Property -- Waqf Lands -- 3: The Introduction of a Western Civil Code System -- Ottoman Sovereignty and the Capitulations -- Tribunals of the Reform: The Mixed Court System -- Mixed Courts -- Consular Courts -- Native Courts -- Mahkamahs -- Millah Courts -- The Civil Codes -- 4: Property Law under the First Civil Codes -- State Lands -- Kharaji Lands -- Mawat Lands -- The Public Domain -- The Private Domain -- Waqf Lands -- Waqf Law in the Civil Courts -- The Law of Waqf -- State Administration of Waqfs -- Private Property -- The Right of Ownership -- Ownership and Other Real Rights -- Enjoyment of the Right of Ownership -- The Transfer of Ownership Rights -- Inheritance and Testament -- Gifts -- Accession -- Appropriation -- Prescription -- Preemption -- Agreements and Contracts -- 5: The Development of a National Legal System -- Unity of Jurisdiction -- The Civil Courts.

The Administrative Courts -- The Courts of Personal Status -- Law Reform -- The Shari'ah Law of Personal Status -- The Law of Waqf -- The Civil Law -- 6: Property Law under the Civil Code of 1949 -- Rules of Property Law in the Civil Code -- Private Property -- The Principal Real Rights -- The Right of Ownership -- The Transfer of Ownership Rights -- Inheritance -- Testamentary Dispositions -- Accession -- Appropriation -- Prescription -- Preemption -- Contract -- Pledge and Mortgage -- State Lands -- Waqfs -- Developments Under the Revolutionary Government -- Notes -- Appendix: Transliterations of Arabic and Turkish Terms -- Bibliography -- Index.