Shari'a : Islamic law in the contemporary context /
Title By: Amanat, Abbas | Griffel, Frank
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BookPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.Description: viii, 249 p ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780804756396 (cloth : alk. paper); 0804756392 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Islamic law -- Interpretation and constructionDDC classification: 340.5/9
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 340.59 SH AR (Browse shelf) | Available | T0035396 |
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| 340.14 SL OR Ordinary meaning : | 340.2 GL LE Legal traditions of the world : | 340.59 MU MA Making sense of the portents of the hour | 340.59 SH AR Shari'a : Islamic law in the contemporary context / | 340.59 SH AR Sharia law: | 340.9 GH IN International private law "Unification or Not". | 340.9 GH IN International private law "Unification or Not". |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-236) and index.
Justice in modern Islamic thought / Gudrun Krämer -- The harmony of natural law and Shari'a in Islamist theology / Frank Griffel -- Islamic law and legal change : the concept of maṣlaḥa in classical and contemporary Islamic legal theory / Felicitas Opwis -- ʿAllāl al-Fāsī : Shari'a as blueprint for righteous global citizenship? / David L. Johnston -- Shari'a and Islamic democracy in the age of al-Jazeera / Noah Feldman -- From ijtihād to wilāyat-i faqīh : the evolution of the Shiite legal authority to political power / Abbas Amanat -- Shiite theories of social contract / Shahrough Akhavi -- Shari'a and constitution in Iran : a historical perspective / Saïd Amir Arjomand -- The normativity of the factual : on the everyday construction of Shari'a in a Yemeni family court / Anna Würth.