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6: Sharia and Justice

In sharia, there is structural and systematic discrimination based on gender, age, socioeconomic status (such as slavery), religion, and sect. What is the meaning of “justice” in sharia? What are the main differences between justice in sharia and the modern concept of justice?

Why have issues of sex and sexuality been so pronounced and problematic for sharia in the modern age? What is the role of the modern understanding of the body in our perception of justice and equity?

In Islamic thought, sharia is divine law legislated by God. Who is the legislative God or “holy lawgiver”?...
How did the idea of sharia emerge in Islam? What did early Muslims consider to be divine law? How was...
When and how were the schools of jurisprudence formed? What are the main differences between Sunni and...
With the reign of the Ottoman Caliphate in the fourteenth century and the Safavid Empire in the sixteenth...
In the modern era, Islamic jurisprudence came face to face with the European legal system. The legal...
In sharia, there is structural and systematic discrimination based on gender, age, socioeconomic status...
The “implementation of sharia” or the “implementation of Islam” constitutes the main pillar of the idea...
Is the monopoly of the clergy on the interpretation of texts and history of religion justified? In the...

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2014

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