When Secular Laws and Religious Convictions Collide
Perry Dane on religious freedom, current conflicts, and Martin Buber The recent challenges by some churches and synagogues to COVID related state restrictions
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Does Law Disdain Literature?
Andrew Kau on The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 In a 2014 interview with The Harvard Gazette Stephen Greenblatt recounted his
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Breaking the Law: Criticizing the Modern Study of Islamic Law
Joseph Lowry on Lena Salaymeh’s The Beginnings of Islamic Law Historical understanding is never achieved from an unsituated vantage point, and an inescapable
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The Priority of the Political: Politics Determines the Possibilities of Islam – by Mohammad H. Fadel
The second essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? Chapter 2 of “What is Islam?” is primarily a deconstructive project
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