Khaled Abou El Fadl's book represents the first systematic
examination of the idea and treatment of political resistance and
rebellion in Islamic law. Pre-modern jurists produced an extensive
and sophisticated discourse on the legality of rebellion and the
treatment due to rebels under Islamic law. The book examines the
emergence and development of these discourses from the eighth to
the fifteenth centuries, and considers juristic responses to the
various terror-inducing strategies employed by rebels--including
assassination, stealth attacks and rape. The study demonstrates how
Muslim jurists went about restructuring several competing doctrinal
sources in order to construct a highly technical discourse on
rebellion. Indeed many of these rulings may have a profound
influence on contempoary practices. This is an important and
challenging book which sheds light on the complexities of Islamic
law, and pre-modern attitudes to dissidence and rebellion.
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