An introduction to Shari'ah -- Part I. The Islamic dream and the chaos of the modern condition -- 1. Genesis : negotiating the Muslim and the Islamic -- 2. Awakening : reasonableness and Islam -- 3. Crisis : making sense of Shari'ah today -- 4. Repose : the Islamic between harmony and dissonance -- Part II. The culture of ugliness and the plight of modern Islam -- 5. Faulty paradigms in constructing the Islamic -- 6. Beyond Islamophobia -- 7. God the universal -- 8. What really went wrong -- 9. God, Shari'ah and beauty -- Part III. Reclaiming Shari'ah in the modern age -- 10. Shari'ah as reasoning with God -- 11. Beyond a reasonable Shari'ah -- 12. The Caliphate of humanity -- Concluding the journey : reclaiming the path to the self in God and the God in the self