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From: ut-emx!blais@emx.utexas.edu (Donald Blais)
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Subject: Re: Book on interaction of Islamic and European traditions
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Date: 10 Jan 91 23:24:05 GMT
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In article <1991Jan8.025110.28895@nntp-server.caltech.edu> gt8145a@prism.gatech.edu (FADEL,AYMAN HOSSAM) writes:
>According to the Georgia Committee on US-Arab Relations Winter 90-91
>newsletter,  the book _Islamic Jurisprudence:  An International
>Perspective_ (St. Martins, 1988) by C G Weeramantry offers the thesis
>that Islamic writers anticipated--even precipated--major developments
>in the intellectual history of Western Europe.  The book idenifies the
>pioneer interpreters and disseminators of Islamic thought to the West and
>introduces the reader to Muslim law in general.  


Excellent reference.  Here's another book of related interest...

Na`im, `Abd Allah Ahmad, 1946-
Toward an Islamic reformation:
civil liberties, human rights, and international law
Syracuse University Press, 1990
ISBN: 0815624840
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