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"The book is a significant addition to the growing literature on Islamic law in secular contexts, particularly on Muslim minorities. Recent studies on migration, minority rights and multiculturalism began showing interest in ongoing debates on Shari'a and its relevance in Europe and America. The book offers important insights into how the Muslims living in liberal democracies responded to the challenges to their conception of law, religious conventions and cultural values. Unlike other studies that treat Muslim minorities as extension of Muslim societies in their countries of origin, the book explores the making of Minority Islamic Law as an independent school with its own rules and principles. There were mainly two authoritative sources of advice available for Muslims in the West: Saudi dar al-Ifta and al-Azhar. The author offers a detailed analysis of these advices and shows how these questions and answers helped developing what is now known as Fiqh al-Aqalliyat. The book also studies al-Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Taha Jabir al-Alwani as two architects of this legal development. This study will be warmly welcomed by policy advisors, students, teachers, lawyers and judges interested in Shari'a debates, Muslim societies in the West and Islamic legal modernism." - Muhammad Khalid Masud, Judge Shariat Appellate Bench, Supreme Court of Pakistan
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Book Title: Fiqh al-Aqalliyy?t
Book Subtitle: History, Development, and Progress
Authors: Said Fares Hassan
Series Title: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137350091
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Said Fares Hassan 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34669-8Published: 15 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46710-5Published: 15 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35009-1Published: 09 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2945-6711
Series E-ISSN: 2945-672X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 216
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, History of the Middle East, Religious Studies, general, Philosophy of Law, Middle Eastern Culture, Political Sociology