Fatwas

Joseph Anton: memórias

by Siqueira, Jose Rubens, Garschagen, Donaldson M., Rushdie, Salman

0 Type: Book

On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a call from a journalist informing him that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? Writing a novel, The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "a…

How muftis think: Islamic legal thought and Muslim women in Western…

by Larsen, Lena

fromStudies in Islamic law and society

0 Type: Book

Part One: Women, Fatwas, Actors. Chapter 1: Continuity and change: Fatwas and fatwa-giving on Women's Issues in Historical Perspective. Chapter 2: The Muftis and the Fatwa Institutions. Part Two: The Fatwas. Chapter 3: Agony Uncle: The Fatwas of Syed Darsh. Chapter 4: Women's Is…

How muftis think: Islamic legal thought and Muslim women in Western…

by Larsen, Lena

fromStudies in Islamic law and society

0 Type: Book

Présentation de l'éditeur : "In How Muftis Think Lena Larsen explores fatwas that respond to questions asked by Muslim women in Western Europe in recent decades. The questions show women to be torn between two opposing notions of morality and norms: one stressing women's duties …

How muftis think: Islamic legal thought and Muslim women in Western…

by Larsen, Lena

fromStudies in Islamic law and society

0 Type: Book

In 'How Muftis Think' Lena Larsen explores fatwas that respond to questions asked by Muslim women in Western Europe in recent decades. The questions show women to be torn between two opposing notions of morality and norms: one stressing women?s duties and obedience, and one stre…

How muftis think: Islamic legal thought and Muslim women in Western…

by Larsen, Lena

fromStudies in Islamic law and society

0 Type: Book

In 'How Muftis Think' Lena Larsen explores fatwas that respond to questions asked by Muslim women in Western Europe in recent decades. The questions show women to be torn between two opposing notions of morality and norms: one stressing women?s duties and obedience, and one stre…

How muftis think: Islamic legal thought and Muslim women in Western…

by Larsen, Lena

fromStudies in Islamic law and society

0 Type: Book

In How Muftis Think Lena Larsen explores fatwas that respond to questions asked by Muslim women in Western Europe in recent decades. The questions show women to be torn between two opposing notions of morality and norms: one stressing women's duties and obedience, and one stress…

Questioning secularism: Islam, sovereignty, and the rule of law in modern…

by Agrama, Hussein Ali

fromChicago studies in practices of meaning

0 Type: Book

What, exactly, is secularism? What has the West's long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? In this work, Hussein Ali Agrama tackles these questions. Focusing on the fatwa councils and family law courts of Egypt just prior to the revolution, he delves deeply into the meaning…

Questioning secularism: Islam, sovereignty, and the rule of law in modern…

by Agrama, Hussein Ali

fromChicago studies in practices of meaning

0 Type: Book

The central question of the Arab Spring - what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East - has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations' secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? What has the West's long familiarity …

Questioning secularism: Islam, sovereignty, and the rule of law in modern…

by Agrama, Hussein Ali

fromChicago studies in practices of meaning

0 Type: Book

"The central question of the Arab Spring - what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East - has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations' secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? In Questioning Secularism, Hussein A…

Old texts, new practices: Islamic reform in modern Morocco

by Terem, Etty

0 Type: Book

In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas. An eleven-volume set, it is the most extensive collection of fatwas written and published in the Arab Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth…

Old texts, new practices: islamic reform in modern Morocco

by Terem, Etty

0 Type: Book

"In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas. An eleven-volume set, it is the most extensive collection of fatwas written and published in the Arab Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentiet…