Amyn B. Sajoo is Scholar-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University's Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures in Vancouver, and the chief editor of the Muslim Heritage Series, in which this is the fifth volume. He has taught at McGill, the University of British Columbia, and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and has held visiting fellowships in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and at Cambridge. A specialist in law, ethics and civil society, he has published Pluralism in Old Societies and New States (1994) and Muslim Ethics: Emerging Vistas (2004), and edited several books including A Companion to Muslim Cultures (2011), Muslim Modernities: Expressions of the Civil Imagination (2008), and Civil Society in the Muslim World: Contemporary Perspectives (2002).

Each essay includes helpful suggestions for further reading. This book opens the way to a new inquiry: Shari'a as the linking of divine will and human good. It makes for excellent reading and thinking ... Summing Up: Highly recommended.

• 1. Introduction: A Multifaceted Venture – Amyn B. Sajoo; 2. Foundations – Khaled Abou al Fadl; 3. Recovering the Ethical – Ebrahim Moosa; 4. Sustaining and Enhancing Life – Karim H. Karim; 5. Spiritual Refinement – Sa'diyya Shaikh; 6. Women's Equality – Ziba Mir-Hosseini; 7. Family Law to Finance – Mohamed Keshavjee & Raficq Abdulla; 8. Bioethics – Amyn B. Sajoo; 9. Legitimizing Authority – Amaan Merali; 10. Democratisation and Shari?a: The Indonesian Experience - Carool Kersten; 11. Shari?a in the Western Landscape – Nicholas Ahrony & Rex Ahdar; 12. Secularism and the Shari?a: Lessons from an Ontario Debate – Jennifer Selby.

Amyn B. Sajoo is Scholar-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University's Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures in Vancouver, and the chief editor of the Muslim Heritage Series, in which this is the fifth volume. He has taught at McGill, the University of British Columbia, and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and has held visiting fellowships in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and at Cambridge. A specialist in law, ethics and civil society, he has published Pluralism in Old Societies and New States (1994) and Muslim Ethics: Emerging Vistas (2004), and edited several books including A Companion to Muslim Cultures (2011), Muslim Modernities: Expressions of the Civil Imagination (2008), and Civil Society in the Muslim World: Contemporary Perspectives (2002).

Each essay includes helpful suggestions for further reading. This book opens the way to a new inquiry: Shari'a as the linking of divine will and human good. It makes for excellent reading and thinking ... Summing Up: Highly recommended.

• 1. Introduction: A Multifaceted Venture – Amyn B. Sajoo; 2. Foundations – Khaled Abou al Fadl; 3. Recovering the Ethical – Ebrahim Moosa; 4. Sustaining and Enhancing Life – Karim H. Karim; 5. Spiritual Refinement – Sa'diyya Shaikh; 6. Women's Equality – Ziba Mir-Hosseini; 7. Family Law to Finance – Mohamed Keshavjee & Raficq Abdulla; 8. Bioethics – Amyn B. Sajoo; 9. Legitimizing Authority – Amaan Merali; 10. Democratisation and Shari?a: The Indonesian Experience - Carool Kersten; 11. Shari?a in the Western Landscape – Nicholas Ahrony & Rex Ahdar; 12. Secularism and the Shari?a: Lessons from an Ontario Debate – Jennifer Selby.

Amyn B. Sajoo is Scholar-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University's Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures in Vancouver, and the chief editor of the Muslim Heritage Series, in which this is the fifth volume. He has taught at McGill, the University of British Columbia, and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and has held visiting fellowships in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and at Cambridge. A specialist in law, ethics and civil society, he has published Pluralism in Old Societies and New States (1994) and Muslim Ethics: Emerging Vistas (2004), and edited several books including A Companion to Muslim Cultures (2011), Muslim Modernities: Expressions of the Civil Imagination (2008), and Civil Society in the Muslim World: Contemporary Perspectives (2002).

Each essay includes helpful suggestions for further reading. This book opens the way to a new inquiry: Shari'a as the linking of divine will and human good. It makes for excellent reading and thinking ... Summing Up: Highly recommended.

• 1. Introduction: A Multifaceted Venture – Amyn B. Sajoo; 2. Foundations – Khaled Abou al Fadl; 3. Recovering the Ethical – Ebrahim Moosa; 4. Sustaining and Enhancing Life – Karim H. Karim; 5. Spiritual Refinement – Sa'diyya Shaikh; 6. Women's Equality – Ziba Mir-Hosseini; 7. Family Law to Finance – Mohamed Keshavjee & Raficq Abdulla; 8. Bioethics – Amyn B. Sajoo; 9. Legitimizing Authority – Amaan Merali; 10. Democratisation and Shari?a: The Indonesian Experience - Carool Kersten; 11. Shari?a in the Western Landscape – Nicholas Ahrony & Rex Ahdar; 12. Secularism and the Shari?a: Lessons from an Ontario Debate – Jennifer Selby.