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Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity

By Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad , Barbara Freyer Stowasser (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
AltaMira Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0759106703, 0759106711, 9780759106703, 9780759106710
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10162572 bytes)
Pages
274\276
Time added
2017-11-01 11:18:59
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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.

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