Sharia Compliant: A User's Guide to Hacking Islamic Law: by Rumee Ahmed, Stanford, Stanford UP, 2018, 247 pp., $22.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-5036-0570-1.

Rumee Ahmed offers a lively and readable account of how Islamic law can (and in the assessment of some, should) be changed, adapted, and reformed. Ahmed offers, as the subtitle suggests, a handbook for practitioners who are interested in what he calls "hacking" Islamic law. The book does not contain...

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Publicado en:Terrorism & Political Violence Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 434 - 436
Autor principal: Hartshorn, Ian M.
Formato: Book Review
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2021
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