Shari'a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics / edited by Robert W. Hefner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hefner, Robert W., 1952- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic ethics.

Law and ethics.

Islamic law--Philosophy.

Islamic law.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

They suggest that despite the tragic violence wrought in recent years by Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq, we may yet see an age of ethical renewal across the Muslim world.

Contents:

Shari`a law and the quest for a modern Muslim ethics / Robert W. Hefner

Shari`a and the rule of law / Anver M. Emon

Moral contestations and patriarchal ethics : women challenging the justice of Muslim family laws / Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Gender, legality, and public ethics in Morocco / Zakia Salime

Constitutionalizing a democratic Muslim state without shari`a: the religious establishment in the Tunisian 2014 constitution / Malika Zeghal

Transformations in Muslim views about "forbidding wrong": the rise and fall of Islamist litigation in Egypt / Clark B. Lombardi and Connie J. Cannon

Shari`a, Islamic ethics, and democracy : the crisis of the "Turkish model" / Ahmet T. Kuru

Islamic modernism, ethics, and shari`a in Pakistan / Muhammad Qasim Zaman

"Shari`a" as a moving target? the configuration of regional and national fields of Muslim debate in Mali / Dorothea E. Schulz

Syariah, Inc.: continuities, transformations, and cultural politics in Malaysia's Islamic judiciary / Michael G. Peletz

Islamic ethics and Muslim feminism in Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253022608

0253022606

OCLC:

964296238