By Mona Siddiqui

during this thought-provoking booklet, Mona Siddiqui displays upon key subject matters in Islamic legislations and theology. those subject matters, which variety via discussions approximately friendship, divorce, drunkenness, love, slavery and formality slaughter, provide interesting insights into Islamic ethics and how within which arguments constructed in medieval juristic discourse. Pre-modern spiritual works contained a richness of notion, hesitation and hypothesis on a variety of subject matters, which have been socially appropriate but additionally offered highbrow demanding situations to the students for whom God's revelation should be understood in different methods. those topics stay appropriate this day, for practicing Muslims and students of Islamic legislation and spiritual reports. Mona Siddiqui is an astute and articulate interpreter who relays advanced principles concerning the Islamic culture with nice readability. Her e-book charts her personal trip throughout the classical texts and displays upon how the rules expounded there have guided her personal pondering, instructing and research.

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