Reason, Revelation and Law in Islamic and Western Theory and History

R. Charles Weller, Associate Professor of History (Career-Track), Washington State University, and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Religion and Culture, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, KazakhstanAnver Emon, Professor of Law and History; Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism and the Rule of Law; Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

• Chapter 1: The Historic Relation of Islamic and Western Law.- Chapter 2: Al-madhhab al-jarīrī: ‘Revealed’ Natural Law Theory, Social Contract, and Human Rights in the Islamic Golden Age.- Chapter 3: Natural Law Theory and Ghazali’s Moral Epistemology: Reason, God, and Human Nature.- Chapter 4: Elitism, Democracy and Epistemic Equality: Aristotle and Ibn Rushd on the Role of Common Beliefs.- Epilogue: Critical Reflections in Retrospect and Prospect.