Sami Zubaida, Law and Power in the Islamic World . New York: I. B. Tauris, 2004, 248 pp., $55, £35, ISBN 1-86064-865-7.
Sami Zubaida's Law and Power in the Islamic World is a fascinating politico-social history of the relations between Islamic law and the procession of political masters who have ruled the Middle East since the Prophet's death. One message is clear: the notion of an omnipotent shariءa, passe...
| Published in: | Comparative Studies in Society and History |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2004
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417504230390 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0010417504230390 |
| Summary: | Sami Zubaida's Law and Power in the Islamic World is a fascinating politico-social history of the relations between Islamic law and the procession of political masters who have ruled the Middle East since the Prophet's death. One message is clear: the notion of an omnipotent shariءa, passed from caliph to caliph for fourteen centuries, is a myth held by both Islamist radicals and their Western critics. |
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