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Long before the rise of Islam in the early seventh century, Arabia had come to form an integral part of the Near East. This book, covering more than three centuries of legal history, presents an important account of how Islam developed its own law while d
Wael B. Hallaq is regarded as one of the leading scholars in the field of Islamic law. In a path-breaking new book, the author shows how authority guaranteed both continuity and change in Islamic law. While the role of the law schools in augmenting these
Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histori
The study of Islamic law can be a forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. T
Since Edward Saids foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals collaboration with oppression. Controversies over the imbrications of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orie
In recent years, Islamic law, or Shari'a, has been appropriated as a tool of modernity in the Muslim world and in the West and has become highly politicised in consequence. Wael Hallaq's magisterial overview of Shari'a sets the record straight
Edward Saids »Orientalismus«-Buch, das bereits vor über 40 Jahren den europäischen Blick auf den Orient als »Stil der Herrschaft und Umstrukturierung« zu entlarven suchte, gilt als eines der Gründungsdokumente der postkolonialen Theorie. Der in New York I