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Islamic Legal Theory And The Legitimacy Of Secular Positive Law: Is Modern Religious Liberty Sufficient For The Islamic Legal Maqsad ('Ultimate Objective') Of Hifz Al-Din ('Preserving Religion')?, Andrew March, Mohamad Al-Hakim, Michael Giudice, François Tanguay-Renaud

François Tanguay-Renaud

Andrew F. March, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University, examines some treatments of the meaning and extension of the Islamic legal purpose (maqad) of protecting religion (hifz al-din), with an eye towards Islamic legal theorists’ explicit or implicit encounter with modern liberal and secularist understandings of what it means to “protect religion.”

Respondent: Mohamad Al-Hakim, York University, Philosophy.

"Simply A Constitutional Legal Question?": Law, Religion And The Modern State, Benjamin L. Berger

Benjamin L. Berger

Benjamin L. Berger, Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, on key questions about law, religion, and social change.

Faith Doesn't Justify Discrimination Against Women, Eric Segall

Eric J. Segall

No abstract provided.