Oct 23, 2001
Islamic law & Western imperialism.
I just stumbled across this:
intertwined histories: islamic law and western imperialism by Jane F. Collier
Histories of Western law that ignore the imperialist context in which it developed and histories of dominated peoples that stress their preservation, rather than their innovative uses, of tradition both fuel dangerous stereotypes of Western law as dynamic (whether progressive or decadent) and Islamic law as conservative (whether pure or backward).
Read it. It's good.
