Tariq Ramadan argues that it is crucial to find theoretical and practical solutions that will enable Western Muslims to remain faithful to Islamic ethics while fully living within their societies and their time.
"Tariq Ramadan has emerged as one of the foremost voices of reformist Islam in the West, notable for urging his fellow Muslims to participate fully in the civil life of the Western societies in which they live. In this new book, Ramadan addresses Muslim societies and communities…
What Did It Mean to be a wife, woman, or slave in a society in which a land-owning woman was forbidden to lie with her male slave but the same slave might he allowed to take concubines? Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi'i legal schools frequently compared marriage…
Contexts -- Prologue: Ahmed's story -- 'New kinship', new reproductive technologies and ideas of kinship in the Middle East -- Islamic law and the religion of Lebanon: the example of adoption -- Conversations -- Test-tube fiqh: islamic legal reactions to the new reproductive tec…