Shari''a Politics - Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World

Informationen zum Autor Robert W. Hefner is Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. Klappentext These essays reveal that the Muslim public's interest in sharia does not spring from an unchanging devotion to received religious tradition, but from an effort to respond to the central political and ethical questions of the day. Zusammenfassung Islamic law and social movements in eight Muslim-majority countries Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Spelling Introduction: Shari'a Politics¿Law and Society in the Modern Muslim WorldRobert W. Hefner 1. Saudi Arabia: Public, Civil, and Individual Shari'a in Law and PoliticsFrank E. Vogel 2. Egypt: Cacophony and Consensus in the Twenty-first CenturyNathan J. Brown 3. Iran: Shari'a Politics and the Transformation of Islamic LawBahman Baktiari 4. Turkey: Islam without Shari'a?M. Hakan Yavuz 5. Afghanistan: The Local and the Global in the Practice of Shari'aT. Barfield 6. Pakistan: Shari'a and the StateMuhammad Qasim Zaman 7. Nigeria: Mapping a Shari'a Restorationist MovementPaul M. Lubeck 8. Indonesia: Shari'a Politics and Democratic TransitionRobert W. Hefner List of Contributors Index

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• Authors: Robert W. Hefner
• Assisted by: Edited by Robert W Hefner (Editor), Robert Hefner (Editor), Robert W Hefner (Editor), Robert W. Hefner (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2011
• EAN: 9780253223104
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22310-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Indiana University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education