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Dr. Bartan’s study is a marvellously informative examination of the processes of legal analysis in Muslim thought and practice. His analysis of methods of legal argumentation and the development of public consensus on a controversial subject should be required reading for anyone trying to understand the processes of legal decision making in the contemporary”
Professor John Voll, Georgetown University
“This book is a major contribution to understanding the social and political contexts in which religious opinions shape, and in turn are shaped by, the challenges of innovation change”
Professor Dale F.Eickelman, Dartmouth College