/ edited by Jorgen S. Nielsen , Lisbet Christoffersen.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
; Burlington, VT
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: Ashgate
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, c2010.
PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE
Date
1001
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvi, 267 p.
SERIES
Series Title
Cultural diversity and law
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Between renewal and tradition : Sharia as discourse / Jorgen S. Nielsen -- An encounter of legal theories "clarity or confusion" classical Fiqh and the issue of logic / Mona Siddiqui -- Demarcating fault-lines within Islam : muslim modernists and hard-line Islamists engage the Sharia / Asma Afsaruddin -- Islamic jurisprudence and Western legal history / Mark van Hoecke -- Is Sharia law, religion or a combination? European legal discourses on Sharia / Lisbet Christoffersen -- Women, secular, and religious laws, and traditions : gendered secularization, gendering Sharia / Hanne Petersen -- Sharia and Nordic legal contexts / Kjell-åke Modéer -- Sharia from behind the bench : court culture, judicial culture, and a judge-made discourse on Sharia at a Swedish district court / Matilda Arvidsson -- Between God and the sultana a legal pluralism in the British Muslim diaspora / Prakash Shah -- Sharia and secularism in France / Manni Crone -- Divine law and human understanding : the idea of Shariah in Saudi Arabia / Dorthe Bramsen -- Speaking in his name? gender, language, and religion in the Arab media / Dima Dabbous-Sensenig -- Sharia and the constitutional debate in Egypt / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen -- Traditions of interpretation within (protestant) Christian theology as compared with Islam / Mogens Müller -- Rebellious women discourses and texts : Sharia, civil rights, and penal law / Peter Madsen.