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Shariʻa as discourse : legal traditions and the encounter with Europe
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- Creator
- edited by Jørgen S. Nielsen, Lisbet Christoffersen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780754679554, 0754679551, 9780754698951, 0754698955
- OCLC
- ocn428895782
- "The Danish Institute in Damascus."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Shariʻa between renewal and tradition / Jorgen S. Nielsen -- Clarity or confusion - classical Fiqh and the issue of logic / Mona Siddiqui -- Demarcating fault-lines within Islam : Muslim modernists and hard-line Islamists engage the Sharia / Asma Afsaruddin -- Islamic jurisprudence and Western legal history / Mark van Hoecke -- Is Sharia law, religion or a combination? European legal discourses on Sharia / Lisbet Christoffersen -- Women, secular and religious laws and traditions : gendered secularization, gendering Sharia / Hanne Petersen -- Sharia and Nordic legal contexts / Kjell-Å̊ke Modéer -- Sharia from behind the bench : court culture, judicial culture, and a judge-made discourse on Sharia at a Swedish district court / Matilda Arvidsson -- Between God and the sultana? legal pluralism in the British Muslim diaspora / Prakash Shah -- Sharia and secularism in France / Manni Crone -- Divine law and human understanding : the idea of Sharia in Saudi Arabia / Dorthe Bramsen -- Speaking in his name? gender, language, and religion in the Arab media / Dima Dabbous-Sensenig -- Sharia and the constitutional debate in Egypt / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen -- Traditions of interpretation within (Protestant) Christian theology as compared with Islam / Mogens Müller -- Rebellious women - discourses and texts : Sharia, civil rights and penal law / Peter Madsen