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Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, Marion Holmes Katz shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's behavior. Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Katz connects shifts in scholarly terminology and argumentation to...

This book is methodologically unique in scholarly literature on Muslim society. Its originality lies in the fact that the rich material offered by the shari'a courts is given a thorough analysis with a view to drawing conclusions about the present-day phenomena in Arab society and processes that the society has been undergoing in modern times. Aharon Layish examines every aspect of the social status of Muslim women that finds expression in the shari'a courts: the age of marriage, stipulations...

The fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the 2005 Danish cartoon fracas awakened many people to the potency of blasphemy accusations in the Muslim world. Accusations and charges such as "blasphemy," "apostasy," "insulting Islam," or "hurting Muslims' religious feelings" pose a far greater danger than censorship of irreverent caricatures of Mohammad: they are increasingly used as key tools by authoritarian governments and extremist forces in the Muslim world to acquire and consolidate power. These ch...

Since at least the attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most pressing political questions of the age has been whether Islam is hostile to religious freedom. Daniel Philpott examines conditions on the ground in forty-seven Muslim-majority countries today and offers an honest, clear-eyed answer to this urgent question. It is not, however, a simple answer. From a satellite view, the Muslim world looks unfree. But, Philpott shows, the truth is much more complex. Some one-fourth of Muslim-majo...

This volume of Sayyid Qutb's tafsir, commentary on the Qur'an, covers Surah 4 Al-Nisa (Women).

What should be the place of Shari 'a - Islamic religious law - in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari 'a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies.An-Na 'im argues that the coercive enforcement of Shari 'a by the state betrays the Qur'an's insistence on voluntary acceptance of Islam. Just as t...

The economic thoughts of a fourteenth century scholar whose work continues to influence the lives and thoughts of Muslims today. This valuable work presents Ibn Taimiyah's thoughts on the concept of Islamic economics, the state in the economy, on public finance, money, interest, prices, partnership, and profit-sharing, and offers a comparison of his ideas with those of some medieval scholars in Europe, along with a study of his influence on Islamic thinkers in later periods.

A direct counterpoint to fear mongering headlines about shariah law—a Muslim American legal expert tells the real story, eliminating stereotypes and assumptions with compassion, irony, and humor Through scare tactics and deliberate misinformation campaigns, anti-Muslim propagandists insist wrongly that shariah is a draconian and oppressive Islamic law that all Muslims must abide by. They circulate horror stories, encouraging Americans to fear the “takeover of shariah” law in America and even mo...

This is a study of the economic thoughts of an Islamic scholar on the role of the state in the economy, public finance, money, interest, prices, partnership, profit sharing and other economic issues, reported and analyzed in their historical context.

This volume of Sayyid Qutb's tafsir, commentary on the Qur'an, covers Surah 26 Al-Shu'ara (The Poets) Surah 32 Al Sajdah (The Prostration).

In January 2015, Muslim terrorists massacred cartoonists and writers at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, proclaiming to be avenging Islam's prophet. The rampage, which included the murders of hostages at a kosher market, prompted global leaders and throngs of citizens to rally in support of free expression. But was the support genuine? In this Broadside, Andrew C. McCarthy explains how leading Islamists have sought to supplant free expression with the blasphemy standar...

This book examines one of the most influential movements in our recent history, the Iranian Revolution and offers a fresh analysis that aids the reader in understanding the reconciliation of Islamic laws with the practices of constitutionalism and parliamentary democracy in Iran. The author examines the two historical examples of how the Islamic authorities, the Ulama or the clergy, took over the ultimate political authority, the state; in both the 1906 Constitutional Revolution and the 1979 rev...