This book examines social policy in Muslim countries across the world and the status and role of Islamic teachings in such policies. It fills a gap in the liter

At a time when more nuanced understandings of Muslim countries and their legal and social practices are urgently needed in the West, the appearance of this coll

This is a new examination of how Shari’a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including f

The current rise of Islamism throughout the Muslim world, Islamists’ demand for the establishment of Islamic states, and their destabilizing impact on regiona

Focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh is concerned with the articulation of actual rules of law