The soul of the Salamiya Sharia for John Paul Charney, translated by Dr. Mohammed Al-Haj Salem

The purpose of this book is not to write a "guide" or "message" about Islamic Sharia, but to access its core through drawing up (existential, historical, methodological, phenomenological, ethical) outlines that enable understanding its architecture, patterns of operation, and methods of reasoning. It moves from clarifying the foundations of Islamic Sharia to studying issues related to its application in the contemporary Islamic world and the risks of legal Orientalism on it in the context of attempts to Westernize it, reaching an analysis of the Islamic conscience crisis resulting from its abolition and the repercussions of all that (Islamist movements, militant Jihad, feminist movements, secularism…).