Heaven on earth : (Record no. 5042)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2011040217
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Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780374168728 (hbk.)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0374168725 (hbk.)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)740628896
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Authentication code pcc
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number KBP50
Item number .K33 2012
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 340.5/9
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kadri, Sadakat.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Heaven on earth :
Remainder of title a journey through shari'a law from the deserts of ancient Arabia to the streets of the modern Muslim world /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Sadakat Kadri.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st American ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2012.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 372 p. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-352) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Laying down the law -- From revelations to revolution -- The formation of the law schools -- Commanding the faithful -- The Sunni challenge and the shia response -- The caliphate destroyed : a shadowless God -- The reinvention of tradition : salafism -- Jihad : a law-torn world -- Innovation and Its discontents : Islamic law and the challenge of change -- Punishment and pity : the modern revival of Islamic criminal law -- "No compulsion in religion"? : apostasy, blasphemy and tolerance -- Heaven on earth
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "In the wake of the colossal acts of terrorism of the last decade, the legal historian and human rights lawyer Sadakat Kadri realized that many people in the West had ideas about the origins and implications of the shari'a, or Islamic law, that were hazy, contradictory, or simply wrong. Even as "shari'a" became a loaded word and an all-encompassing explanation, most of us remained ignorant of its true meaning. And we were doing this at our peril. In Heaven on Earth, Kadri brings lucid wit and analytical skill to the thrilling and turbulent story of Islam's foundation and expansion. He shows how legal ideas gradually evolved out of thousands of reports about the Prophet Mohammad, most of which were not even written down until two centuries after his death. And he explains how, just in the last forty years, the shari'a has been appropriated and transformed by hardliners desperate to impose their oppressive vision. In the second half of the book, Kadri takes us on an extraordinary journey through more than half a dozen countries in the Islamic world, where he explores, in striking detail, how the shari'a is taught, read, reinterpreted, reverenced, and challenged--beginning at the eight-hundred-year old Indian grave of his Sufi mystic ancestor, and ending in Cairo's City of the Dead, where one of Islam's greatest legal scholars still gets daily requests for legal miracles twelve centuries after his death. Heaven on Earth is a brilliantly iconoclastic tour through one of history's great collective intellectual achievements, as complex as the religion that brought it to life. The shari'a continues to shape both explosive political circumstances and the daily life of more than a billion Muslims, and Sadakat Kadri has given us a compelling and clarifying portrait of a changeable world of faith, reason, and justice"--
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Islamic law
General subdivision History.
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Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Copy number Price effective from Koha item type Public note
          Female Library Female Library 04/18/2021   KBP50 .K33 2012 51952000168713 04/15/2021 1 04/15/2021 Books STACKS
          Main Library Main Library 04/18/2021   KBP50 .K33 2012 51952000146469 04/15/2021 1 04/15/2021 Books STACKS