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A Political Theology of Law

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Mark Fathi Massoud. Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2023

Katherine Lemons*
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University. Email: katherine.lemons@mcgill.ca

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International Book Essays
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation

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Footnotes

She is the author of Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press, 2019) as well as numerous articles on Islamic law, gender and kinship, the anthropology of India, and social theory.

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