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These analyses will prove beneficial to scholars and students of religious studies, interreligious, intercultural, and international relations, political science, history, sociology, and related fields both within and beyond the Western and Islamic worlds, as well as generally educated readers who take interest in these issues and their ramifications.
Chapter 1: The Historic Relation of Islamic and Western Law.- Chapter 2: Al-madhhab al-jariri: '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.