Open AccessIn Quest of Justice
Author(s) -
Омар Анчасси
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the american journal of islamic social sciences/american journal of islamic social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2642-701X
pISSN - 0887-7653
DOI - 10.35632/ajiss.v36i3.621
Subject(s) - islam , conversation , economic justice , sharia , transition (genetics) , politics , political science , history , law , ancient history , sociology , archaeology , chemistry , gene , biochemistry , communication
Historians have been preoccupied for some time with the question of how Islamic law came to be transformed in the last two hundred or so years and the role this has played in the emergence of modern Middle Eastern states. All too frequently, this conversation has lacked granularity; it has taken place without reference to the vast archival records that document this transition in intimidating detail.