Table of Contents

Introduction: politics, theology, sovereignty; 1. Transcendence and interpretation: introductory notes on the theology of the rule of law Lior Barshack; 2. Shari'a, faith and critical legal theory Marinos Diamantides; 3. One law against another? Reading the veil cases: the foundational reference, Shari'a and human rights Adam Gearey; 4. The gift of ambiguity: strategising beyond the either/or of secularism and religion in Islamic divorce law Hassan El Menyawi; 5. What is Islamic law? A praxological answer and an Egyptian case study Baudouin Dupret; 6. State of equalities: law, marriage and citizenship in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania Satyel Larson; 7. Entreprenuers and morals Gül Berna Özcan; 8. Religion, politics and the dilemma of national identity in Pakistan Tasneem Kausar; 9. Theorizing Islam without the state: Islamic discourses on the minority status of Muslims in the West Alexandre Caeiro; 10. Terror in the faculty lounge: addressing the politics of fear and the politics of difference in government security policies K.E. Brown

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Marinos Diamantides, Adam Gearey