When the ulema in Northern Nigeria did not hack the fiqh but rather simply reproduced medieval codes in greatly reductionist…
Sarah Eltantawi
Sarah Eltantawi (PhD, Harvard University, 2012) is the author of Shari'ah on Trial: Northern Nigeria's Islamic Revolution (University of California Press, 2017), and assistant professor of comparative religion and Islamic studies at the Evergreen State College. She is working on a book on the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt through the lens of political theology.
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Is democracy the question?
July 16, 2014
Perhaps the most pertinent question to be asked of Egypt’s revolutionary/counter-revolutionary process in the past three years is this: how…