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Craig Baxam, the Secret Convert
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Islamists and Super-Islamists, and the Incoherence of Each of Them
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Revisiting Same Sex Marriage as a Muslim Legal Realist
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Why American Muslims Should Support Same Sex Marriage
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Islamic Law In Our Times: Category Archive for Shari'a Blogs
Craig Baxam, the Secret Convert
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Islamists and Super-Islamists, and the Incoherence of Each of Them
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Revisiting Same Sex Marriage as a Muslim Legal Realist
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Why American Muslims Should Support Same Sex Marriage
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Random Thoughts on Slavery and the Shari'a
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Michele Bachmann's Obsessions With the Caliphate
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Tim Tebow as Muslim: A Hypothetical
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A Shi'i's Lament
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12/6/2011 2:44 PM
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Regulation and Risk Sharing in Islamic Finance
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11/30/2011 10:33 PM
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Interpretive Constraints and Interpretive Authorities
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11/10/2011 7:11 PM
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Islam's Capacity for Democracy: Readings from Reinhold Neibuhr
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10/7/2011 11:52 AM
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"Religion is for God, and the Nation is for All" and Islam as Ornament
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10/3/2011 8:10 PM
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"The PEOPLE Want the Fall of the Regime"
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7/26/2011 1:37 PM
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Najaf and American Academia
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7/15/2011 2:29 PM
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Hijab, Bicycles and the Need for Juristic Clarity
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7/12/2011 3:36 PM
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Hamas and Gaza
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7/11/2011 9:30 PM
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Judicial Power Rising in Kurdistan
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7/10/2011 12:12 PM
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Case Study on Why Najaf Clerics Shouldn't Do Law: Yaqubi and the Matter of Iraqi Citizenship Through Women
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7/8/2011 3:58 PM
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Islam and Homosexuality
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6/2/2011 9:41 PM
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International Criminal Justice and the Shari'a
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5/23/2011 10:00 PM
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The At Sea Burial of Osama Bin Laden: What It Means
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5/2/2011 1:41 PM
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Hamid Karzai, the Real Villain of the Qur'an Burning Episode
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4/11/2011 8:28 PM
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The Islamic Threat to Iranian Juristic Theory
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3/29/2011 7:49 PM
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Brandon Davies, Iraq and the Privatization of Islamic Law
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3/25/2011 6:15 AM
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Islamophobic Regulation
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3/23/2011 5:21 AM
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The Mostly Weird Ways of the Muslim Purists
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3/20/2011 9:39 PM
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Realism Revisited in Law and Religion Conference in Santa Clara
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2/21/2011 4:24 PM
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The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court and Islamic Law
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2/14/2011 6:07 PM
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The Enhancement of the Realist Effect in Religious Law
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12/3/2010 9:39 PM
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Sanhuri and Stipulations
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11/29/2010 10:12 AM
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Islamic Finance Artifice and Classical Islamic Law
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11/24/2010 8:20 PM
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The Oklahoma Ban on "Shari'a Law"
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11/15/2010 9:13 AM
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Islamists, Republicans and Their Striking Similarities
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11/9/2010 8:19 PM
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On Culture and CULTURE in Islamic Interpretive Process
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10/12/2010 9:26 PM
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Pastor Jones, the REAL Sideshow
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9/18/2010 8:38 PM
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The Sideshow Goes Mainstream: On Islamophobia and Mosque Building
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8/22/2010 1:25 PM
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Qualifying Realism
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6/29/2010 3:41 PM
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Cleric and Layperson in Muslim and Christian traditions
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6/10/2010 11:18 AM
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Juristic Intervention into Politics and Endorsement of the State
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6/7/2010 1:12 PM
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The Odd Characteristics of Najaf's Interventions in Politics
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5/8/2010 10:19 PM
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Polygamy in France: On Wives and Mistresses
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5/3/2010 7:05 AM
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God and Earthquakes in the Religious Traditions
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4/20/2010 8:16 PM
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Islamic Law AND Constitutional Liberty: A Conference at St. Thomas School of Law
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4/13/2010 3:35 PM
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Negligence and Jihan's Law
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4/8/2010 12:55 PM
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The Maqasid and Family Law
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2/16/2010 5:05 PM
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Institutional Failures in Islam
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2/10/2010 7:19 PM
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Environmentalism and Islam in Our Times
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1/31/2010 8:27 AM
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America's Two Muslim Communities
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1/22/2010 4:20 PM
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Worship of the same God in the Muslim and Christian paradigms
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1/12/2010 6:23 AM
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Free and Hurr: On the redefiniton of Islamic terminology
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12/29/2009 2:52 PM
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Islam and State According to the Grand Ayatollahs of Najaf.
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11/5/2009 8:39 AM
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Reexamining the Doors of Ijtihad in Najaf
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11/1/2009 4:16 AM
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Najaf Views on Sunnism and Shi'ism
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10/28/2009 1:26 PM
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Islam and democracy in Iraq: A Realist Perspective
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10/18/2009 1:09 PM
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Alcohol and the Iraq Elections: Thoughts on Religious Expertise
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10/10/2009 1:11 PM
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Reflections from Baghdad on the American Muslim Experience
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10/5/2009 1:48 PM
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Hessel Yntema and The Muezzin's Call
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9/30/2009 1:40 PM
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Is Islamic Finance a Legal Practice or a Consumer Brand? A Closer Look at the Shari'a Review Board
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9/19/2009 2:55 PM
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Venice Conference on Islamic Law
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9/19/2009 2:04 PM
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On the Nature of the Ignored Hadith and the Contingency of Muslim Legal Doctrine
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8/6/2009 2:41 AM
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Beyond Law: Understanding Additional Dimensions to the Debate over Sound Hadith
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7/19/2009 3:40 AM
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Law and Shari'a in Iran and Beyond
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Women in the New Iraq
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7/10/2009 4:21 AM
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The Obama Speech and the "Muslim Perspective"
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6/17/2009 1:32 PM
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Death in the Court and the Hawza
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6/6/2009 1:22 PM
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Freedom of Religion in Iraq and the United States: An Interesting Case from Judge Sotomayor
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6/3/2009 6:02 AM
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Islam and the Environment: Realism and Rhetoric
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5/16/2009 1:19 PM
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Artifice, Islamic Banks, and the Economic Rationality of the Devout Muslim Consumer
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5/6/2009 11:19 AM
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Islamic Finance and the Economic Crisis: Facts and Fallacies
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4/28/2009 3:57 PM
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American and Muslim Perspectives on Law, Constitution and Religion
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4/17/2009 2:12 PM
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Is the Afghan Shi'a Family Law Really That Radical?: A Contrarian's View
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4/5/2009 10:14 PM
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Optical Enactment and the Shari'a
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3/20/2009 3:38 PM
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Llewellyn's Canons and the Shari'a
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3/10/2009 8:09 PM
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Chasing Chickens and the Murabaha
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3/6/2009 5:05 PM
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Caprice and the Shari'a: Translated Qurans and Nations of Law
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2/15/2009 8:40 PM
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Lilly Ledbetter and the Difficulties of Shi'i Taqlid
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1/30/2009 4:36 PM
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Islam and the Alliance for the Nation of Law
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1/25/2009 1:48 PM
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Divisions and Unities Between the Muslim Sects
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1/20/2009 10:22 AM
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Authority and Its Avoidance
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1/16/2009 4:24 PM
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Fortune Telling and the Goals of the Shari'a
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1/13/2009 12:41 AM
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Ganja and Gays: Realism in the Islamic and American Contexts
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12/24/2008 11:28 AM
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Women's Rights in the Islamist Movements
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12/10/2008 6:11 PM
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The Islamic Uniform Commercial Code, and Why It WIll Never Work
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12/5/2008 7:02 PM
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Jerusalem and Kashmir: On Symbol and Substance in Muslim Grievance
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12/1/2008 10:32 PM
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Muslims Living in the West: On the Nature of Bad Argument under the Shari'a
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11/25/2008 6:03 PM
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Proxies and Purposes in Islam
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11/19/2008 9:37 PM
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God and the Absence: Theological Excursions
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11/17/2008 12:39 PM
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The Relevance of Text in Constitutional And Islamic Interpretation
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11/12/2008 4:49 PM
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"Bush, Bush, Listen Yay, We are with Barack Hussein" versus Obama the Apostate: Islamic Reflections on the Presidency
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11/10/2008 7:29 PM
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How to Deal with Jewish Or Muslim Roots: Candidate Case Studies
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11/3/2008 11:16 PM
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Hamas and the Marriage of the Widows
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10/31/2008 9:15 PM
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Law and law: Negotiating the tension between God's Will and Human Reality
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10/29/2008 10:24 PM
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Eppur Si Muove: Extremist and Terrorist Cultural Exchange
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10/28/2008 11:55 AM
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Taqiya, Dissembling and Anti-Muslim Bigotry
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10/22/2008 9:25 PM
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The Prohibition of Fun under the Shari'a: Salafi Ideological Fanaticism
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10/19/2008 10:45 PM
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Shari'a and the Power of Decree in the Muslim State
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10/16/2008 9:21 PM
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Does anyone appreciate the existence of non shari'a state law in Muslim countries?: A Cry of Exasperation
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10/14/2008 3:31 PM
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(Alleged) Muslim Sacred Text on (I quote, and not for normative value) "Dogs, Asses and Women": Forcing Change in Islamic Preconceptions
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10/13/2008 3:23 PM
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Takaful and Insurance: On the meaning of "ownership"
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10/10/2008 1:07 PM
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Is Islamic finance law?
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10/8/2008 8:52 PM
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