Shari'a and Positive Legislation: is an Islamic State Possible or Viable?

Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law

Volumn 5, Issue , 2000, Pages 29-41

  An Naim, Abdullahi A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. 1 By the term shari'a, I mean the religious normative system of Islam. I prefer to use this term rather than Islamic law precisely because my argument here is that shari'a cannot be enacted into law and remain a religiously sanctioned normative system.
2. 2 Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1969.
3. 4 Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Press, 1964.
4. } Human Rights and International Law, Syracuse, NY, USA, Syracuse University Press, 1990, Chapter 2.
5. 6 "Allegory of the rule (hukm): law as simulacrum in Islam?" History ofReligion, 1998, pp. 1-24, at p. 12.
6. 7 Bernard Weiss, The Spirit ofIslamic Law, Athens, GA, USA, University of Georgia Press, 1998. p. 120.
7. Conflicts and Tensions in IslamicJurisprudence, p. 34.
8. During discussion at a seminar commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, Royal Netherlands Academy of Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10-11 December 1998.
9. See generally, An-Na'im, Towardan Islamic Reformation.