Radical Islam's rules
Subtitle: the worldwide spread of extreme Shari'a law
By: edited by Paul Marshall.
Contributors: Marshall, Paul A., 1948-
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Islamic law -- Middle East.; Islamic law -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Islamic law -- Southeast Asia.; Islamic law -- South Asia.; Islam and state.; Islamic fundamentalism.; Religion
Description: A major feature of the rise of Islamism in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and parts of the West is the current rapid growth of a starkly repressive version of shari'a, Islamic law. In this book, noted human rights activists and scholars trace the growth of such law in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, Nigeria, Malaysia, and Indonesia, show its threat to the status of women, religious freedom, and democracy itself, and suggest how we should respond.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shari'a in Saudi Arabia, today and tomorrow / Stephen Schwartz; title: Shari'a law in Iran / Mehrangiz Kar; translated by Kavian Milani; title: Shari'a in Pakistan / Maarten G. Barends; title: Shari'a in Sudan / Hamouda Bella; title: Nigeria: Shari'a in a fragmented country / Paul Marshall; title: Islamization and partial Shari'a in Malaysia / Peter G. Riddell; title: Islamisation and creeping Shari'a in Indonesia / Peter G. Riddell; title: Democracy and Islam in the new constitution of Afghanistan / Rand Corporation.