Shariʻa as discourse
Subtitle: legal traditions and the encounter with Europe
By: edited by Jørgen S. Nielsen, Lisbet Christoffersen
Contributors: Danish Institute in Damascus
Series: Cultural diversity and law; Religion in the 21st century; Cultural diversity and law; Religion i det 21. århundrede
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780754679554; 9780754698951
Notes: "The Danish Institute in Damascus."--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Shariʻa between renewal and tradition / Jørgen S. Nielsen; title: Clarity or confusion : classical Fiqh and the issue of logic / Mona Siddiqui; title: Demarcating fault-lines within Islam : muslim modernists and hard-line Islamists engage the Shariʻa / Asma Afsaruddin; title: Islamic jurisprudence and Western legal history / Mark van Hoecke; title: Is Shariʻa law, religion or a combination? : European legal discourses on Shariʻa / Lisbet Christoffersen; title: Women, secular, and religious laws, and traditions : gendered secularization, gendering Shariʻa / Hanne Petersen; title: Shariʻa and Nordic legal contexts / Kjell-åke Modéer; title: Shariʻa from behind the bench : court culture, judicial culture, and a judge-made discourse on Shariʻa at a Swedish district court / Matilda Arvidsson; title: Between God and the sultana : legal pluralism in the British Muslim diaspora / Prakash Shah; title: Shariʻa and secularism in France / Manni Crone; title: Divine law and human understanding : the idea of Shariʻa in Saudi Arabia / Dorthe Bramsen; title: Speaking in his name? : gender, language, and religion in the Arab media / Dima Dabbous-Sensenig; title: Shariʻa and the constitutional debate in Egypt / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen; title: Traditions of interpretation within (Protestant) Christian theology as compared with Islam / Mogens Müller; title: Rebellious women : discourses and texts : Shariʻa, civil rights, and penal law / Peter Madsen.