Shari'a in the West
By: edited by Rex Ahdar and Nicholas Aroney
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780199582914
Subjects: Islamic law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: The topography of Shari'a in the western political landscape  -- Rex Abda and Nicholas Aroney; title: Multicultural citizenship and the Shariʼa controvery in Britain  -- Tariq Modood; title: The Archbishop of Canterbury : the man and the theology behind the Shariʼa lecture  -- John Milbank; title: Religious courts' recognition claims : two qualitatively distinct narratives  -- Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens; title: Islamic law, fundamental freedoms, and social cohesion : retrospect and prospect  -- Michael Nazir-Ali; title: Shariʼa and pluralism  -- James W. Skillen; title: Questions about the reasonable accommodation of minorities  -- Jeremy Waldron; title: State, religion, and the family : the new dilemmas of multicultural accomodation  -- Ayelet Sachar; title: Shariʼa and the true basis of group rights : Islam, the West, and liberalism  -- John Milbank; title: Religious courts, personal federalism, and legal transplants  -- Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens; title: Natural law, democracy, and Shariʼa  -- J. Budzisziewski; title: Negotiating the unfamiliar : reflections from The Netherlands on the Archbishop of Canterbury's lecture  -- Sophie van Bijsterveld; title: Reflections on the establishment of Shariʼa courts in Australia  -- Abdullah Saeed; title: In the shadow of our legal system : Shariʼa in Australia  -- Ann Black; title: To Shariʼaticize or not to Shariʼaticize : Islamic and secular law in liberal democratic society  -- Erich Kolig; title: The future of Muslim family law in western democracies -- John Witte Jr.