Islam, Law and the Modern State: (Re)Imagining Liberal Theory in Muslim Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780367893729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 150 str.

Arif A. Jamal

Opis

This work develops a framework for addressing this issue. It argues that liberal theory and, in particular, justice as discourse, can be normatively useful in Muslim contexts for relating, religion, law, state and society.

O autorze

Arif A. Jamal is Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law where he teaches comparative law, legal theory, law and religion, and Islamic law. He has studied and researched in law, politics and Islamic studies in Canada, the UK and the USA, and writes on issues of law and religion, comparative law and law in Muslim contexts.