Tag: sharia

• The Sharia as Utopian Discourse?

  

  In the interests of continuing education, I’m taking a class on Sharia and Islamic Law. So far, so fascinating. This explains how I came to read Rumee Ahmed’s Sharia Compliant: A User’s Guide to Hacking Islamic Law (Stanford University Press, 2019), or rather, the introduction and the first chapter of that book. Except that now…

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  May 9, 2019

  Reading Out Loud

  Islam, religion, religious change, religious studies;, Rumee Ahmed, sharia, social change