Junaid Quadri is Associate Professor of History and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"Quadri's conclusion is bold: the status and nature of Islamic law in modernity has been fundamentally altered because of the ""irresistible"" nature of modern epistemological commitments. * Rajbir Singh Judge, California State University, Long Beach, Journal of the American Academy of Religion * This book is essential reading for any scholar of the ulama or Islamic law. But it will also be of great interest to scholars of Muslim societies under colonialism generally, and to scholars of secularity in any period ... It is to Quadri's great credit that virtually anyone interested in any aspect of Islam in the last two centuries will find something thought - provoking in this book. * Brannon D. Ingram, Northwestern University, Reading Religion * ...much anticipated and equally brilliant book... * SherAli Tareen, New Books Network *"