Sharia Compliant: A User's Guide to Hacking Islamic Law

by Rumee Ahmed

Book Overview

For over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evolving Muslim community and served as a moral and spiritual compass. They did this by "hacking" Islamic law in accordance with changing times and contexts, diving into the interconnected Islamic legal tradition to recalibrate what was outdated, making some laws work better and more efficiently while leaving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503605701
• ISBN13: 9781503605701
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"