Shariʻa as discourse : legal traditions and the encounter with Europe / edited by Jørgen S. Nielsen, Lisbet Christoffersen.

"The Danish Institute in Damascus."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Shariʻa between renewal and tradition / Jorgen S. Nielsen -- Clarity or confusion - classical Fiqh and the issue of logic / Mona Siddiqui -- Demarcating fault-lines within Islam : Muslim modernists and hard-line Islamists engage the Sharia / Asma Afsaruddin -- Islamic jurisprudence and Western legal history / Mark van Hoecke -- Is Sharia law, religion or a combination? European legal discourses on Sharia / Lisbet Christoffersen -- Women, secular and religious laws and traditions : gendered secularization, gendering Sharia / Hanne Petersen -- Sharia and Nordic legal contexts / Kjell-Å̊ke Modéer -- Sharia from behind the bench : court culture, judicial culture, and a judge-made discourse on Sharia at a Swedish district court / Matilda Arvidsson -- Between God and the sultana? legal pluralism in the British Muslim diaspora / Prakash Shah -- Sharia and secularism in France / Manni Crone -- Divine law and human understanding : the idea of Sharia in Saudi Arabia / Dorthe Bramsen -- Speaking in his name? gender, language, and religion in the Arab media / Dima Dabbous-Sensenig -- Sharia and the constitutional debate in Egypt / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen -- Traditions of interpretation within (Protestant) Christian theology as compared with Islam / Mogens Müller -- Rebellious women - discourses and texts : Sharia, civil rights and penal law / Peter Madsen.