In light of Rick Santorum's recent comments on religion and the public sphere, we asked a small handful of scholars…
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. He is the author of Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a (Harvard University Press, 2008); African Constitutionalism and the Contingent Role of Islam (2006); and Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil liberties, human rights and international law (1990). Islam and the Secular State was published in Indonesia as Islam dan Negara Sekular (Mizan 2007). Translations of this manuscript in Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Russian, Swahili and Turkish are available.
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