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The religion trap
...of Islam and Islamic law. A particular understanding of the latter has captured the Malaysian legal imaginary: The finding that most lay Muslims understand Islamic law as a legal code...
I hope you like circles
by Kerry Mitchell...leave open the identity of the transcendent thus became an orientation to others, part of a social code that labels her as a tolerant individualist. Or, more to the point,...
Gandhian fraternity
by Akeel Bilgrami...proviso which allowed Muslims in India their own personal laws until such time as they, from within their own thinking, came around to a more secular code of family law....
Between Mother India and Jim Crow: Yoga in the United States during the interwar decades
...a good idea to compile all of these advertisements and code out the data from them—names, dates, cities, venues, lecture titles—onto a spreadsheet. Years later, that spreadsheet has expanded into...
Deciphered by means of a perfected computer
by John Lardas Modern...reality itself, Matei speaks in code. His salvific secrets are too much for the present to bear, let alone understand. He has no choice but to record them and to...
Understanding the president’s reality: Our unconscious, not his
by Judith Gurewich...issues of public life and especially into the states of mind of its actors. This is the result of the famous Goldwater Rule, introduced into the ethics code of the...
A headscarf affair, a women’s affair?
by Nilüfer Göle...of a civil family code), political rights (women’s vote and eligibility), or educational rights (co-education of girls and boys), all underpinned the republican coupling of secularism and women’s rights. Since...
race
by Katharine Gerbner...not initially think of themselves as “white.” Instead, they used terms like “Christian” or “English” to describe themselves. In the Barbados Slave Code of 1661, the first comprehensive English slave...
Why Shariah?
by Saïd Amir Arjomand...its penal code (hudud) with severe punishments for adultery, theft and blasphemy which gravely disadvantage the women, the poor and the religiously deviant, and has no constitutional component. The sociological...