Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transcendence and interpretation : introductory notes on the theology of the rule of law / Lior Barshack -- Shari'a, faith and critical legal theory / Marinos Diamantides -- One law against another? : Reading the veil cases : the foundational reference, Shari'a and human rights / Adam Gearey -- The gift of ambiguity : strategising beyond the either/or of secularism and religion in Islamic divorce law / Hassan El Menyawi -- What is Islamic law? : A praxiological answer and an Egyptian case study / Baudouin Dupret -- State of equalities : law, marriage and citizenship in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania / Satyel Larson -- Entrepreneurs and morals / Guèl Berna Oèzcan -- Religion, politics and the dilemma of national identity in Pakistan / Tasneem Kausar -- Theorizing Islam without the state : Islamic discourses on the minority status of Muslims in the West / Alexandre Caeiro -- Terror in the faculty lounge : addressing the politics of fear and the politics of difference in government security policies / Katherine E. Brown