Moses, Muhammad and Nature's God in Early American Religious-Legal History, 1640-1830: A Global Crosscultural Perspective

by R. Charles Weller

This is the first comparative study of Mosaic and Islamic law in American history to be published. Constructing a complex picture in trans-Atlantic, trans-European and world historical perspectives, this book elucidates the intersections that lie beneath and behind the rise of the debates in the 1990s and 2000s over the promotion of the Ten Commandments and Mosaic Law as alleged sources of American Constitutional law and symbols of American national...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031601874
• ISBN13: 9783031601873
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 403 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 7.9"