Sharia Incorporated. A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present

• Autor Principal: Jan Michiel, Otto (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Idioma: inglés
• Publicado: Leiden University Press 2010
• Series: Law, Governance, and Development
• Subjects: Law & society; islamic world; sharia; sociology law; Islam; Sharia
• Acceso en liña: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book is an ambitious study of how Islamic law traditions have been incorporated into the national legal systems throughout the Muslim world. Both puritan Islamists and Western alarmists tend to oversimplify and misrepresent the role and position of sharia. In response, this book takes stock of...