Sharia in detail: apostasy, women, slavery, jihad

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   Topic hub

   Sharia and society

   Apostasy, blasphemy, women, slavery, war — read with charity and primary sources.

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   Apostasy and the question of religious freedom

   Q 2:256, Bukhārī 6878, the four schools, modern reformist scholars.

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   Women and the classical fiqh tradition

   Classical fiqh on testimony, inheritance, marriage, divorce — and modern critique.

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   The classical Islamic laws of war and modern debate

   Jihad in the classical schools and what modern Muslim scholars now argue.

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   How do Christians talk about all this without becoming the news?

   How to engage Sharia honestly without becoming the headline.