{"product_id":"religion-and-contract-law-in-islam-hardback","title":"Religion and Contract Law in Islam - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secular life? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a search that spans revelation, legal tradition, and the reality of the Muslim world, this book explores the Islamic contract (\u003ci\u003e‘aqd \u003c\/i\u003ein Arabic) as a ‘city’ at the crossroads of convergent paths of translation, comparison, and law in context. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn particular, the book shows that only by re-orienting traditional categories of Western law-religion toward the East can an alternative path of discovery for the \u003ci\u003e‘aqd \u003c\/i\u003ebe advanced. Hence, through a fortuitous encounter with an \u003ci\u003eArab Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, the reader will (re-)visit the Temple of Western modernity and explore a city ruled by Towers of dialectical forces, carrying a hermeneutical Ring that combines dialectics, Islamic studies, and media theory. This interdisciplinary approach will not only enrich our knowledge of the \u003ci\u003e‘aqd \u003c\/i\u003ebut also make it more understandable as a cultural and social construction to which both Muslims and non-Muslims have participated in forging its multiple representations. By inviting the readers ‘to know who they are’ while \u003ci\u003elooking at \u003c\/i\u003eher, the \u003ci\u003eArab Girl \u003c\/i\u003eis already waiting for us to \u003ci\u003elisten to \u003c\/i\u003ethe Islamic contract in a new way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy applying a distinctive law and religion approach to the study of the contract in Islam, the book provides a comprehensive exploration of a topic that is of interest to legal and economic comparatists as well as to readers in anthropology, Islamic and cultural studies, and it is also of topical meaning for today’s international lawyers and the operators of an increasingly multicultural and transnational market.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45566485496046,"sku":"9781138504042","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/religion-and-contract-law-in-islam-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}