Shari'a
Subtitle: Islamic law in the contemporary context
By: edited by Abbas Amanat and Frank Griffel.
Contributors: Amanat, Abbas.; Griffel, Frank.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780804756396
Subjects: Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Much ado about values : justice in modern Islamic thought / Gudrun kremer; title: The harmony of natural law and Shari'a in Islamist theology / Frank Griffel; title: Islamic law and legal change : the concept of malaa in classical and contemporary legal theory / Felicitas Opwis; title: Alll al-fs : Shari'a as blueprint for righteous global citizenship / David L. Johnston; title: Shari'a and Islamic democracy in the age of Al-Jazeera / Noah Feldman; title: From Ijtihad to Wilayat al-Faqih : the evolution of the Shi'ite authority to political power / Abbas Amanat; title: Shi'ite theories of social contract / Shahrough Akhavi; title: Shari'a and constitution in Iran : a historical perspective / Said Amir Arjomand; title: The normativity of the factual on the every day construction of Shari'a in a Yemeni family court / Anna Wirth.