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Contemporary Islamic Legal Thought:
Law, State, and World Order

Case Studies

The third part of the course shifts from explicit theory to practice, taking up case-studies of the contemporary application of Islamic law by several states that assert relatively strong claims to Islamic-legal legitimacy, including Iran, Egypt and others. We develop inductively from these case-studies (and from writings of practitioners within these legal systems) some of the most important contemporary theories on the topics of concern.