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THE FALL AND RISE OF THE ISLAMIC STATE
By Noah Feldman | Princeton Univ. 189 pp. $22.95
ISLAM AND THE SECULAR STATE
Negotiating the Future of Shari'a
By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im | Harvard Univ. 324 pp. $35
For more than 20 years, Islamists in Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and other Muslim countries have campaigned for popular support by presenting sharia, or Islamic law, as the antidote to authoritarian rule, injustice and repression.
Westerners often wonder how Muslims possibly can believe such claims. We recall the Taliban blowing up ancient statues and preventing girls from going to school in Afghanistan. We think of authorities in Saudi Arabia and Iran cutting off hands for theft and stoning women to death for adultery. Read more ...
THE FALL AND RISE OF THE ISLAMIC STATE
By Noah Feldman | Princeton Univ. 189 pp. $22.95
ISLAM AND THE SECULAR STATE
Negotiating the Future of Shari'a
By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im | Harvard Univ. 324 pp. $35
For more than 20 years, Islamists in Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and other Muslim countries have campaigned for popular support by presenting sharia, or Islamic law, as the antidote to authoritarian rule, injustice and repression.
Westerners often wonder how Muslims possibly can believe such claims. We recall the Taliban blowing up ancient statues and preventing girls from going to school in Afghanistan. We think of authorities in Saudi Arabia and Iran cutting off hands for theft and stoning women to death for adultery. Read more ...
Source: Washington Post
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