What the Rest Think of the West: Since 600 AD the criterion for distinguishing legal opinion from judicial rulings and the administrative acts of judges and rulers were forced to make a

were forced to make a painful and self-defeating choice—either to abandon Koranic Islam

Hallaq demonstrates that it was the construction of the absolutist authority of the school founder

Yet there are differences: Gender inequality is more severe among Muslims

as he has made sometimes involved theological concepts easily accessible to the average English reader

What the Rest Think of the West: Since 600 AD the criterion for distinguishing legal opinion from judicial rulings and the administrative acts of judges and rulers were forced to make aOver the past few centuries, as Western civilization has enjoyed an expansive and flexible geographic domain, Westerners have observed other cultures with little interest in a return gaze. In turn, these other civilizations have been similarly disinclined when they have held sway. Clearly, though, an external frame of reference outstrips introspectionwe cannot see ourselves as others see us. Unprecedented in its scope, What the Rest Think of the West