Sharia versus freedom : the legacy of Islamic totalitarianism

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Label

Sharia versus freedom : the legacy of Islamic totalitarianism

Title remainder

the legacy of Islamic totalitarianism

Statement of responsibility

Andrew G. Bostom

Creator

• Bostom, Andrew G

Subject

• Controversial literature
• Electronic books
• Islam
• Islam -- 21st century
• Islam -- Controversial literature
• Islam -- United States
• Islamic law
• Islamic law -- United States
• LAW -- Essays
• 2000-2099
• LAW -- Jurisprudence
• LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism
• LAW -- Practical Guides
• LAW -- Reference
• Social Science
• United States
• LAW -- General Practice

Genre

• Electronic books
• Controversial literature

Language

eng

Summary

Author Andrew G. Bostom expands upon his two previous groundbreaking compendia, The Legacy of Jihad and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, with this collection of his own recent essays on Sharia - Islamic law. The book elucidates, unapologetically, Sharia's defining Islamic religious principles and the consequences of its application across space and time, focusing upon contemporary illustrations. A wealth of unambiguous evidence is marshaled, distilled, and analyzed, including: objective, erudite studies of Sharia by leading scholars of Islam; the acknowledgment of Sharia's global "resurgence," even by contemporary academic apologists for Islam; an abundance of recent polling data from Muslim nations and Muslim immigrant communities in the West confirming the ongoing, widespread adherence to Sharia's tenets; the plaintive warnings and admonitions of contemporary Muslim intellectuals - freethinkers and believers, alike - about the incompatibility of Sharia with modern, Western-derived conceptions of universal human rights; and the overt promulgation by authoritative, mainstream international and North American Islamic religious and political organizations of traditional, Sharia-based Muslim legal systems as an integrated whole (i.e., extending well beyond mere "family-law aspects" of Sharia). Johannes J.G. Jansen, Professor for Contemporary Islamic Thought Emeritus at Utrecht University, says this book "will prove sobering to even staunch optimists."

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

340.5/9

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

BP161.3

LC item number

.B67 2012eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography