The Life of Shari'a

Is there a way to think about contemporary life with knowledge that is neither modern nor Western? Rather than confining Islam to a “religion” and shariʿa to its “law,” Youssef Belal provocatively argues that Islamic shariʿa is a mode of knowledge with its own concepts and scholarly categories through which the world and the self are grasped. The Life of Shari ʿ a considers two intertwined lineages: how Islamic scholars have formulated knowledge from the classical period to today and how Western