A Secular Need - 9780295747071

A Secular NeedIslamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India\nAuthor(s): Jeffrey A. Redding, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295747071, 978-0295747071\nSynopsis\nWhether from the perspective of Islamic laws advocates, secularisms partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for sharia bans in the courts, in western Europe legal limitations have been imposed on mosques and the wearing of headscarves, and in the Arab Middle East conflicts between secularist old guards and Islamist revolutionaries persistsuggesting that previously unsteady coexistences are transforming into outright hostilities.\n\nJeffrey Reddings exploration of Indias non-state system of Muslim dispute resolut.