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...
| Published in: | Terrorism & Political Violence Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 434 - 436 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2021
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| Summary: | 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 a sustained empirical argument, instead Ahmed offers a normative one, that Muslims should seize the means of revising Islamic law for themselves, and that doing so is not only a modern necessity, but a long-standing civilizational effort. |
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