The Sharia Is Historical and Cannot Be Understood by the Text Alone

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• The contemporary crisis reveals a political and cultural impasse that needs deconstruction

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• Historical formation yields the Sharia
• Textual reading alone
• Religious law is seen as authorized by a sacred text
• The rulings appear divine and not subject to amendment
• Practical problems in applying the Sharia
• The Sharia is the result of historical formation
• The Sharia is not textual reading alone
• Religious law is authorization from the text
• The rulings appear divine and immutable
• Applying the Sharia faces practical problems