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The Life of Shari'a

A Comparative Anthropology of Law

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Is there a way to think about contemporary life with knowledge that is neither modern nor Western? Rather than confining Islam to a "religion" and shari?a to its "law," Youssef Belal provocatively argues that Islamic shari?a is instead a mode of knowledge with its own concepts and scholarly categories through which the world and the self are grasped. Making this case requires two major intertwined genealogies: that of how Islamic scholars formulated knowledge from the classical period to today and that of how Westerners have understood the law and how it came to be constituted. By melding these two traditions and disentangling the ways they inflect and distort our understanding of each other, Belal puts the formation of modern law and its circulation outside Europe under a new light. He offers both a compelling revisionist account of shari?a in the history of Islam and a powerful argument for its continued relevance to the life of contemporary Muslims.  

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juin 2025, env. 376 Pages, Anglais
University Presses
978-0-520-41004-6

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