TY  - BOOK
AU  - World Council of Churches
AU  - Mitri,Tarek
TI  - Religion, law, and society: a Christian-Muslim discussion 
SN  - 2825411485
AV  - BP172 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Geneva
PB  - WCC Publications
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Religion and law
KW  - Comparative studies
N1  - "This book is the fruit of two Christian-Muslim colloquia convened by the Office on Interreligious Relations of the World Council of Churches ... held in Switzerland (Geneva and Nyon) in December 1992 and November 1993"--P. xiii; 1; Introduction; Tarek Mitri --; Typologies of religion and state; Sheila McDonough --; Shariah and modernity; Walid Saif --; The implications of Shariah, Fiqh and Qanun in an Islamic state; Tayyib Z. Al-Abdin --; Shariah, change and plural societies; Jrgen S. Nielsen --; Tashri (process of law-making) in Islam; Asghar Ali Engineer --; Notes on Shariah, Fiqh and Ijtihad; Mokhtar Ihsan Aziz --; On the urgency of Ijtihad; Khalid Ziadeh --; Shariah and religious pluralism; Bert F. Breiner --; Islamic Shariah and the status of non-Muslims; Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani --; Muslim minorities and Shariah in Europe; Ge Speelman --; Secularism and religion; Mohammed Ben-Yunusa --; Religion and secularization : introductory remarks from a Western-Christian experience; Heinz Klautke --; Secularism and religion : alternative bases for the quest for a genuine pluralism; Bert F. Breiner --; State, religion, and laicite : the Western European experience; Jrgen S. Nielsen --; The role of religious institutions and 'ulama' in a contemporary Muslim societ; Tayyib Z. Al-Abdin --; Human rights and Islamic revivalism; Walid Saif --; Differing perceptions of human rights : Asian-African interventions at the [United Nations] Human Rights Conference; Thomas Michel; 2
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