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Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies. He is the author of The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Organization and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890 (The University of Chicago Press, 1984), The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran (Oxford University Press, 1988); and the editor of several books, including Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction (Leiden : E.J. Brill, 2007), and Constitutional Politics in the Middle East (London: Hart Publishers, 2008). He is the founder and current President of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies and founding Editor of the Journal of Persianate Studies.
Noah Feldman prefaces his plea for the Shariah in his recent article for The New York Times Magazine (”Why Shariah?“) with a reference to the proposal recently made by the Archbishop of Canterbury to allow the Shariah and Jewish law to be considered in voluntary family and arbitration courts. The Archbishop and the Professor are addressing very different issues, however. [...]
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