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  • Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues

    by W. Cole Durham, Rik Torfs ...
    Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues brings together vital analysis of the challenges that Europe poses for an expanding Islam and that Islam poses for Europe, within their ever-evolving religious, legal, and social environments. This book gathers some of the best thinking on Islam and the law affecting current and contested issues that can no longer be ignored, particularly as they have found ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • An Introduction to Islamic Law

    by Wael B. Hallaq ...
    The study of Islamic law can be a forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. The first half of the book is devoted to a discussion of Islamic law in its pre-modern natural habitat. The second part explains how the law was ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

    by Noah Feldman ...
    "[A] concise and thoughtful history of the evolution of the Islamic legal system from the time of the first caliphs to our own" from the bestselling author ( U.S. News & World Report).One of Economist's Best Books of the YearWinner of the PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American PublishersIn this incisive book, Harvard law professor Noah Feldman tells the story behind the ... Read more

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  • The Arab Winter

    A Tragedy

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrongThe Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was neverthel... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic

    Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition

    by Amit Bein ...
    To better understand the diverse inheritance of Islamic movements in present-day Turkey, we must take a closer look at the religious establishment, the ulema, during the first half of the twentieth century. During the closing years of the Ottoman Empire and the early decades of the Republic of Turkey, the spread of secularist and anti-religious ideas had a major impact on the views and political ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • After Khomeini

    Iran Under His Successors

    by Said Amir Arjomand ...
    For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W. Bush's "axis of evil" even before the appearance of Ahmadinejad. But what is the reality? How did Ahmadinejad rise to power, and how much power does he really have? What are the chances of normalizing relations with Iran? In After Khomeini, Saïd Amir Arjomand paints a subtle and perceptive portrait of contemporary Iran. This ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims

    The State's Role in Minority Integration

    by Jonathan Laurence ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, Jonathan Laurence challenges the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Headscarf Debates

    Conflicts of National Belonging

    by Anna C. Korteweg, Gökçe Yurdakul ...
    The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world. Those who don the headscarf in Germany are referred to as "integration-refusers." In Turkey, support by and for headscarf-wearing women allowed a religious party to gain political power in a strictly secular state. A niqab-wearing Muslim woman was denied French citizenship for not conforming to national values. And ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Terror and Territory

    The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Today's global politics demands a new look at the concept of territory. From so-called deterritorialized terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda to U.S.-led overthrows of existing regimes in the Middle East, the relationship between territory and sovereignty is under siege. Unfolding an updated understanding of the concept of territory, Stuart Elden shows how the contemporary "war on terror" is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Shari'a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics

    by Anver Emon, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Zakia Salime, Malika Zeghal, Clark Lombardi, Connie J. Cannon, Ahmet T. Kuru, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Dorothea E. Schulz, Michael G. Peletz ...
    Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the place of sharia law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing together leading scholars of Islamic politics, ethics, and law, this book examines the varied meanings and uses of Islamic law, so as to assess the prospects for democratic, plural, and gender-equitable ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Islam and Human Rights

    Tradition and Politics

    by Ann Elizabeth Mayer ...
    Islam and Human Rights is a probing examination of how the Islamic tradition has been exploited for political ends by regimes and institutions seeking to legitimize policies inimical to human rights. Ann Elizabeth Mayer critically appraises Islamic human rights schemes that dilute the human rights afforded by international law, comparing them with the complex Islamic legal heritage and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity

    by Wael B. Hallaq, Nathan J. Brown, Adel Omar Sherif, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Nadia Yakoob (Fragomen, Bernsen & Loewy), Amen Mir, Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Barbara Stowasser, Zeinab Abul-Magd, Lama Abu-Odeh, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, Del Rey (US) ...
    Since Europeans first colonized Arab lands in the 19th century, they have been pressing to have the area's indigenous laws and legal systems accord with Western models. Although most Arab states now have national codes of law that reflect Western influence, fierce internal struggles continue over how to interpret Islamic law, particularly in the areas of gender and family. From different ... Read more

    $44.59 USD