Islamic law and the challenges of modernity / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Barbara Freyer Stowasser.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2004.Description: ix, 264 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0759106703 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0759106711 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780759106703 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780759106710 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.59 22 H117i c.1, c.2
LOC classification:
  • KBP144 .I83 2004
Other classification:
  • 86.14
Online resources:
Contents:
Can the Shari'a be restored? / Wael B. Hallaq ; Inscribing the Islamic Shari'a in Arab constitutional law / Nathan J. Brown and Adel Omar Sherif ; A typology of state Muftis / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen ; A contextual approach to improving asylum law and practices in the Middle East / Nadia Yakoob and Aimen Mir ; Internationalizing the conversation on women's rights; Arab countries face the CEDAW committee / Ann Elizabeth Mayer ; Tahlil marriage in Shari'a, legal codes, and the contemporary Fatwa literature / Barbara Fryer Stowasser and Zeinab Abul-Magd / Egyptian feminism: trapped in the identity debate / Lama Abu-Odeh ; Muslim women and legal reform: the case of Jordan and women's work / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 340.59 H117i c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000948301
Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 340.59 H117i c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.

Can the Shari'a be restored? / Wael B. Hallaq ; Inscribing the Islamic Shari'a in Arab constitutional law / Nathan J. Brown and Adel Omar Sherif ; A typology of state Muftis / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen ; A contextual approach to improving asylum law and practices in the Middle East / Nadia Yakoob and Aimen Mir ; Internationalizing the conversation on women's rights; Arab countries face the CEDAW committee / Ann Elizabeth Mayer ; Tahlil marriage in Shari'a, legal codes, and the contemporary Fatwa literature / Barbara Fryer Stowasser and Zeinab Abul-Magd / Egyptian feminism: trapped in the identity debate / Lama Abu-Odeh ; Muslim women and legal reform: the case of Jordan and women's work / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol.

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