Dynamics of Sharia

Danielz states that the purpose of this book is a contribution to: "Producing anthropology that goes beyond the mistaken duality of Islam as a discursive tradition or embodied/ multiple interpretive frameworks." Studying products of Sharia raises many questions for the anthropology of Islam. Should we understand these products as part of an Islamic "discursive tradition" linking itself to the foundational texts, or as new discourses and necessities that must be understood solely through the interpretations of our interlocutors and their knowledge? How should we approach the connection of these products of Sharia with different concepts, and how can we relate them to practice? And how are these products connected to modernity, secularism, and political Islam? The way this book helps us answer these questions opens a new path for the anthropology of Islam.