Law and Society in Islam

Devin J. Stewart is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at Emory University. He specializes in Islamic law and legal theory, Shi'ite Islam, the Qur'an, and Arabic dialects. He is the author of numerous articles as well as three books, including Law and Education in Islam. Baber Johansen is Professor of Islamic Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Prior to his appointment, he served as Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Centre d'etude des normes juridiques), Paris. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between religion and law in the classical and the modern Muslim world. Johansen was twice elected a member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and has been a visiting professor at the Watson Institute (Providence), Harvard University, and Ca' Foscari (Venice). Amy Singer is a professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. Her recent books include Charity in Islamic Societies and Starting with Food: Culinary Approaches to Ottoman History (also available from Markus Wiener).