Nobuaki Kondo, Islamic Law and Society in Iran: A Social History of Qajar Tehran (New York: Routledge, 2017). Pp. 210. $149.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780415711371
Sami Zubaida's Law and Power in the Islamic World is a fascinating politico-social history of the relations between Islamic law and the procession of political masters who have ruled the Middle East since the Prophet's death. One message is clear: the notion of an omnipotent shariءa, passed from caliph to caliph for fourteen centuries, is a myth held by both Islamist radicals and their Western critics.
Nobuaki Kondo, Islamic Law and Society in Iran: A Social History of Qajar Tehran (Royal Asiatic Society Books), New York: Routledge, 2017. 210 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-71137.