Heaven on Earth
A Journey Through Shari'a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World
Heaven on Earth is a vivid, revealing, and essential narrative history of shari'a law--the widely contested and misunderstood code of Islamic justice--and how the application of its concepts has changed over time and, with it, the face of Islam.Some fourteen hundred years after the Prophet Muhammad first articulated God's law--the shari'a--its earthly interpreters are still arguing about what it means. Hard-liners reduce it to amputations, veiling, holy war, and stonings. Others say that it is humanity's only guarantee of a just society. And as colossal acts of terrorism made the word shari'a more controversial than ever in the early twentiet…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4668-0218-6
- EAN: 9781466802186
- Produktnummer: 22468311
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 677 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
- Abbildungen: Notes/Bibliography/Index
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