Heaven on earth : a journey through shari'a law
Almost 1400 years after the Prophet Muhammad first articulated God's law - the sharia - its earthly interpreters are still arguing over what it means. Hardliners reduce it to amputations, veiling, holy war and stonings. Others say that it is humanity's only guarantee of a just societ
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Laying down the law
- 2. From revelations to revolution
- 3. The formation of law schools
- 4. Commanding the faithful
- 5. The sunni challenge and the shi'a response
- 6. The caliphate destroyed: a shadowless god
- 7. The reinvention of tradition: salafism
- 8. Jihad: a law-torn world
- 9. Innovation and its discontents: Islamic law and the challenge of change
- 10. Punishment and pity: the modern revival of Islamic criminal law
- 11. 'No compulsion in religion'? apostasy, blasphemy and tolerance
- 12. Heaven on earth