Dynamics of Islamic Sharia and social political transformations

Danielaz specifies the purpose of this book as a contribution to: "Producing anthropology that transcends the mistaken binary about Islam as a discursive tradition or embodied/multiple interpretive frameworks." The study of Sharia products raises many questions for the anthropology of Islam. Should we understand these products as part of an Islamic "discursive tradition" linked to 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 Sharia products with different concepts, and how can we interpret their embodiment in practice? And how are these products related to modernity, secularism, and political Islam? The way this book helps us answer these questions opens a new path for the anthropology of Islam.