Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity write by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. This book was released on 2004. Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 geographical and ideological points across the contemporary Arab world, Haddad and Stowasser demonstrate the range of views on just what Islam's legal heritage in the region should be. For either law or religion classes, Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity provides the broad historical overview and particular cases needed to understand this contentious issue. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Islam and the Challenges of Modernity
Islam and the Challenges of Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam and the Challenges of Modernity write by Dr. Shaukat Ali. This book was released on 2004. Islam and the Challenges of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wahhābī Islam Facing the Challenges of Modernity
Wahhābī Islam Facing the Challenges of Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wahhābī Islam Facing the Challenges of Modernity write by Muhammad Al-Atawneh. This book was released on 2010-06-14. Wahhābī Islam Facing the Challenges of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines Dār al-Iftā, the official Saudi religious establishment for issuing fatwas, between 1971 and 1999. Specifically, it explores the challenges that this scholarly body encountered when applying Wahhābī interpretations of the Shari'a to late twentieth-century modernity.
Modern Challenges to Islamic Law
Modern Challenges to Islamic Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Challenges to Islamic Law write by Shaheen Sardar Ali. This book was released on 2016-10-06. Modern Challenges to Islamic Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers unique insights into Islamic law, considering its theoretical perspectives alongside its practical application in daily Muslim life.
Islamic Law and Governance in Contemporary Iran
Islamic Law and Governance in Contemporary Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Law and Governance in Contemporary Iran write by Mehran Tamadonfar. This book was released on 2015-05-20. Islamic Law and Governance in Contemporary Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The current rise of Islamism throughout the Muslim world, Islamists’ demand for the establishment of Islamic states, and their destabilizing impact on regional and global orders have raised important questions about the origins of Islamism and the nature of an Islamic state. Beginning with the Iranian revolution of the late 1970s and the establishment of the Islamic Republic to today’s rise of ISIS to prominence, it has become increasingly apparent that Islamism is a major global force in the twenty-first century that demands acknowledgment and answers. As a highly-integrated belief system, the Islamic worldview rejects secularism and accounts for a prominent role for religion in the politics and laws of Muslim societies. Islam is primarily a legal framework that covers all aspects of Muslims’ individual and communal lives. In this sense, the Islamic state is a logical instrument for managing Muslim societies. Even moderate Muslims who genuinely, but not necessarily vociferously, challenge the extremists’ strategies are not dismissive of the political role of Islam and the viability of an Islamic state. However, sectarian and scholastic schisms within Islam that date back to the prophet’s demise do undermine any possibility of consensus about the legal, institutional, and policy parameters of the Islamic state. Within its Shi’a sectarian limitations, this book attempts to offer some answers to questions about the nature of the Islamic state. Nearly four decades of experience with the Islamic Republic of Iran offers us some insights into such a state’s accomplishments, potentials, and challenges. While the Islamic worldview offers a general framework for governance, this framework is in dire need of modification to be applicable to modern societies. As Iranians have learned, in the realm of practical politics, transcending the restrictive precepts of Islam is the most viable strategy for building a functional Islamic state. Indeed, Islam does provide both doctrinal and practical instruments for transcending these restrictions. This pursuit of pragmatism could potentially offer impressive strategies for governance as long as sectarian, scholastic, and autocratic proclivities of authorities do not derail the rights of the public and their demand for an orderly management of their societies.
