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The F-Word

How politics and language mix

In the Human Frame

Memories of the baffled king

Balance the Books

The case for Canadian publishing

Anver M. Emon

Anver M. Emon is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He specializes in Islamic law in the premodern and modern worlds.

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Sharia and Its Discontents

Can we find more nuanced ways of examining the Other? June 2008
Sherene Razack’s most recent book, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics, contributes to the growing critical scholarship about the sociopolitical meaning of Islam in liberal western states. Razack addresses issues ranging from prison camps and security certificates, to the imperialist potential of feminism and the sharia debate in…