The Future of Shari`a

"Abdullahi An-Na’im," writes Mark Juergensmeyer at The Immanent Frame, "is a man with a mission. As the expatriate Sudanese law professor told The New Yorker writer George Packer in a recent article, his new book on Islam and the Secular State was written as “a work of advocacy more than of scholarship.” But as an advocate to whom? After all, one would think that the main thesis of the book — that Islamic ideas of law should not be mandated by a political state — is not the sort of thing that would be disputed by most readers of books published by Harvard University Press." 

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