Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth is a vivid, revealing, and essential narrative history of shari''a law--the widely contested and misunderstood code of Islamic justice--and how the application of its concepts has changed over time and, with it, the face of Islam.
Some fourteen hundred years after the Prophet Muhammad first articulated God''s law--the shari''a--its earthly interpreters are still arguing about what i...
Heaven on Earth is a vivid, revealing, and essential narrative history of shari''a law--the widely contested and misunderstood code of Islamic justice--and how the application of its concepts has changed over time and, with it, the face of Islam.
Some fourteen hundred years after the Prophet Muhammad first articulated God''s law--the shari''a--its earthly interpreters are still arguing about what i...
