Rebellion and violence in Islamic law /
Khaled Abou El Fadl.
- New York : Cambridge University P., 2006.
- xii, 391 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
The book represents the first systematic examination of the idea and treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law. It examines how pre-modern Muslim jurists restructured competing doctrinal sources to construct a highly technical discourse on rebellion which has come to influence contemporary practice.