Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law

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Khaled Abou El Fadl is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Islam and Shariah Islamic law and Islamic jurisprudence. Among his books are: Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shariah in the Modern Age (Rowman and Littlefield 2014); The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books (Rowman and Littlefield 2006); Speaking in Gods Name: Islamic law Authority and Women (Oneworld Publications 2001); And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses (Rowman and Littlefield/UPA 2001); The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists (HarperOne 2007) and Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press 2001).Ahmad Atif Ahmad is professor of religious studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is the author of Islamic Law: Cases Authorities and Worldview (London: Bloomsbury 2017) The Fatigue of the Sharia (New York: Palgrave 2012) and Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law (Leiden: Brill 2006) Professor Ahmad teaches courses on Islamic legal reasoning in medieval Islam and early modern Egypt.Said Fares Hassan currently teaches at al-Azhar University Faculty of Languages and Translation Department of Islamic Studies Cairo Egypt. He received his PhD from UCLA in 2011. He worked as a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown University in 2012; a visiting fellow at the Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Indonesia in 2014; and a visiting fellow at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies Freie Universität Berlin also in 2014. His publications include Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat: History Development and Progress (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and Law-Abiding Citizen: Recent Fatwas on Muslim Minorities Loyalty to Western Nations Journal of the Muslim World October 2015. He has contributed a number of chapters to edited volumes such as Education and the Arab Spring: Shifting Toward Democracy 2016 ChristianMuslim Relations. A Bibliographical History 2016 and The Encyclopedia of Muslim American History 2010.