Introduction
1: Dhimmis, Shari'a, and Empire
2: Reason, Contract, and the Obligation to Obey
3: Pluralism, Dhimmi Rules, and the Regulation of Difference
4: The Rationale of Empire and the Hegemony of Law
5: Shari'a as Rule of Law
6: The Dhimmi Rules in the Post-Colonial Muslim State
7: Religious Minorities and the Empire of the Law
Conclusion
Anver M. Emon is Associate Professor of Law at the University of
Toronto's Faculty of Law. Emon's research focuses on premodern and
modern Islamic legal history and theory; premodern modes of
governance and adjudication; and the role of Shari'a both inside
and outside the Muslim world. The author of Islamic Natural Law
Theories (OUP, 2010), Professor Emon is the founding editor of
Middle East Law and Governance: An Interdisciplinary Journal,
and
one of the general editors of the Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
series.
Polytheists and the irreligious were anathematized in classical
Islam, but it assigned People of the Book, mainly Christians and
Jews, to an intermediate protected category, the dhimma. Much
writing on this institution takes sides, arguing that it was a
mechanism either for interreligious harmony or for persecution of
minorities. Anver Emon, in his weighty and original Religious
Pluralism and Islamic Law, rejects both opposing views, as well as
the concept of tolerance as a useful analytical tool.
*Jonathan Benthall, Times Literary Supplemen*
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