Social Science Research Council
Robert W. Hefner is professor of anthropology and director of the program on Islam and Civil Society at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. Hefner has carried out research on religion and politics in Southeast Asia for the past thirty years, and has conducted comparative research on Muslim culture and politics since the late-1980s. He is currently directing a collaborative project on “Shari`a Politics” in eight Muslim-majority countries.
Few books in Islamic studies have been as eagerly awaited or intensely debated prior to publication as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im’s Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a. Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University, An-Na`im has for more than twenty years been a tireless proponent of a deeply religious but liberal-modernist reformation of Islamic politics and ethics. [...]
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