TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amanat,Abbas
AU  - Griffel,Frank
TI  - Shari'a: Islamic law in the contemporary context 
SN  - 9780804756396
AV  - KBP440.3 .S52 2007
U1  - 340.5/9 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Islamic law
KW  - Interpretation and construction
KW  - fast
KW  - Islam
KW  - gnd
KW  - Recht
KW  - swd
KW  - Islamisk rätt
KW  - sao
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-236) and index; Justice in modern Islamic thought; Gudrun Krämer --; The harmony of natural law and Shari'a in Islamist theology; Frank Griffel --; Islamic law and legal change : the concept of maṣlaḥa in classical and contemporary Islamic legal theory; Felicitas Opwis --; ʻAllāl al-Fāsī : Shari'a as blueprint for righteous global citizenship?; David L. Johnston --; Shari'a and Islamic democracy in the age of al-Jazeera; Noah Feldman --; From ijtihād to wilāyat-i faqīh : the evolution of the Shiite legal authority to political power; Abbas Amanat --; Shiite theories of social contract; Shahrough Akhavi --; Shari'a and constitution in Iran : a historical perspective; Saïd Amir Arjomand --; The normativity of the factual : on the everyday construction of Shari'a in a Yemeni family court; Anna Würth
N2  - This volume presents ten leading scholars' writings on contemporary Islamic law and Muslim thought. The essays examine a range of issues, from modern Muslim discourses on justice, natural law, and the common good, to democracy, the social contract, and "the authority of the preeminent jurist." Changes in how Shari'a has been understood over the centuries are explored, as well as how it has been applied in both Sunni and Shi'i Islam. Debates on the nature, interpretation, reform, and application of Shari'a lie at the core of all Islamist revivalist ideologies and movements of the past two centuries. The demand for the implementation of Shari'ba is one of the hallmarks of Islamic fundamentalism, and Shari'a has become one of the most controversial and politicized concepts in Muslim-majority countries today. This will be one of the first books to examine how Muslims understand and apply Shari'a in contemporary societies.--Publisher description
ER  -