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The world of fatwas, or, The shariah in action / Arun Shourie
Publication details: New Delhi : Harper Collins Publishers., 1997.Description: viii, 685 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9788172232597 (pbk)
- 8172232594 (pbk)
- 340.59 SHO
Contents:
Introduction-
Their Sway--
1. Their ways, their power-
2. All of Life-
Believers and Kafirs--
3. Identity: from distinctiveness to assertiveness to aggressiveness-
4. "Worse than All Creation"-
5. Khilafat, Independence, and After-
Women and Shariah--
6. "Mom ki naak, balki raal ki pudiya, balki baarood ki dibiya"-
Shariah and Power--
7. Shariah as Power-
Their World--
8. Yet it moves not! -
9. A closed, self-perpetuating circle-
Quran and Hadis--
10. A fundamental difficulty-
Our World--
11. To give history a helping hand-
12. "But who reads the Fatwas?"-
Index.
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Introduction-
Their Sway--
1. Their ways, their power-
2. All of Life-
Believers and Kafirs--
3. Identity: from distinctiveness to assertiveness to aggressiveness-
4. "Worse than All Creation"-
5. Khilafat, Independence, and After-
Women and Shariah--
6. "Mom ki naak, balki raal ki pudiya, balki baarood ki dibiya"-
Shariah and Power--
7. Shariah as Power-
Their World--
8. Yet it moves not! -
9. A closed, self-perpetuating circle-
Quran and Hadis--
10. A fundamental difficulty-
Our World--
11. To give history a helping hand-
12. "But who reads the Fatwas?"-
Index.
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