/ edited by Jorgen S. Nielsen, Lisbet Christoffersen
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Farnham, Surrey England ;Burlington, Vt.
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: Ashgate
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, 2010.
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xvi, 267 p.
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: ill
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(Cultural Diversity and Law Religion in the 21st Century)
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"The Danish Institute in Damascus."-T.p.
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Index
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Sharia between renewal and tradition / Jorgen S. Nielsen.- 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-eake Modaeer.- 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 : legal pluralism in the British Muslim diaspora / Prakash Shah.- Sharia and secularism in France / Manni Crone.- Divine law and human understanding : the idea of Sharia 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 Meuller.- Rebellious women : discourses and texts : Sharia, civil rights, and penal law / Peter Madsen