Anver M. Emon

Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law

Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law

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Produktbeschreibung

Analysing the rules governing the treatment of foreigners in Islam and situating them in their historical, political, and legal context, this book sets out a new framework for understanding these rules as part of a wider problem of governing through law amidst pluralism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780198722021
• ISBN-10: 0198722028
• Artikelnr.: 42382327

Autorenporträt

Anver M. Emon is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. Emon's research focuses on premodern and modern Islamic legal history and theory; premodern modes of governance and adjudication; and the role of Shari'a both inside and outside the Muslim world. The author of Islamic Natural Law Theories (OUP 2010) and Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue (with M Levering and D Novak, OUP 2014), Professor Emon is the founding editor of Middle East Law and Governance: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and one of the general editors of the Oxford Islamic Legal Studies series.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Dhimmis, Shari'a, and Empire
2: Reason, Contract, and the Obligation to Obey
3: Pluralism, Dhimmi Rules, and the Regulation of Difference
4: The Rationale of Empire and the Hegemony of Law
5: Shari'a as Rule of Law
6: The Dhimmi Rules in the Post-Colonial Muslim State
7: Religious Minorities and the Empire of the Law
Conclusion