HUSSIN's Review of Contesting Justice

Contesting Justice, as reviewed by Iza Hussin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Studies of Islamic law for a nonspecialist readership are major undertakings for several reasons: they require clear explication of the hermeneutics and contexts of Islamic legal theory, and of the specific adaptations made within Muslim societies in history; they must avoid both the normative assumptions of "Western" theories of law and the in-speak of Islamic jurisprudence; they need to strike a balance between giving credence to the beliefs of Muslims and evaluating their political and social strategies. For all these reasons, Souaiaia's project is daring and ambitious; its strengths, and the challenges it faces, derive from the scope of the undertaking… Read the rest of the review

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