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""At a moment when, around the world, the image of Islam has negative connotations--whether in political discourse, the media or public opinion more generally--Rosen offers an analysis of Islamic law that deconstructs numerous stereotypes.""--Marie-Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ""Rosen writes elegantly and clearly about issues relating to Islam, the Arab world, and law. He writes with a great deal of expertise, based on his fieldwork in Morocco, his knowledge of US law, and his wide reading, especially in Islamic law.""--John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis ""Islam and the Rule of Justice is written with exceptional clarity and is admirably accessible to initiates in Islamic studies as well as the broad field of anthropology of Muslim societies.""-- ""Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute""

Rosen writes elegantly and clearly about issues relating to Islam, the Arab world, and law. He writes with a great deal of expertise, based on his fieldwork in Morocco, his knowledge of US law, and his wide reading, especially in Islamic law. --John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis At a moment when, around the world, the image of Islam has negative connotations--whether in political discourse, the media or public opinion more generally--Rosen offers an analysis of Islamic law that deconstructs numerous stereotypes. --Marie-Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

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Lawrence Rosen is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Princeton University and adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School. He is the author of The Culture of Islam; Varieties of Muslim Experience; Bargaining For Reality; and Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew; all also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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