TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amanat,Abbas
AU  - Griffel,Frank
TI  - Shari'a: Islamic law in the contemporary context 
SN  - 9780804756396 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - KBP440.3 SHA 
U1  - KBP 440.3 SHA 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Islamic law
KW  - Interpretation and construction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-236) and index; Justice in modern Islamic thought / Gudrun Krämer -- The harmony of natural law and Shari'a in Islamist theology / Frank Griffel -- Islamic law and legal change : the concept of maṣlaḥa in classical and contemporary Islamic legal theory / Felicitas Opwis -- ʻAllāl al-Fāsī : Shari'a as blueprint for righteous global citizenship? / David L. Johnston -- Shari'a and Islamic democracy in the age of al-Jazeera / Noah Feldman -- From ijtihād to wilāyat-i faqīh : the evolution of the Shiite legal authority to political power / Abbas Amanat -- Shiite theories of social contract / Shahrough Akhavi -- Shari'a and constitution in Iran : a historical perspective / Saïd Amir Arjomand -- The normativity of the factual : on the everyday construction of Shari'a in a Yemeni family court / Anna Würth
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007014097.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007014097-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007014097-d.html
ER  -