Morgan Clarke: 2 books
Islam and Law in Lebanon
Sharia within and without the State
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The modern state of Lebanon, created after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, is home to eighteen officially recognised different religious communities (or sects). Crucially, political office and representation came to be formally shared along confessional lines, and the privileges of power are distributed...
Islam and New Kinship
Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religious...