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A study of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - an Iraqi scholar whose ideas were influential in the rise of political Islam.
Synopsis
This is the first comprehensive study in English of the life and works of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr. Executed in 1980, Sadr was an Iraqi scholar who made an important contribution to the renewal of Islamic law, economics, banking and politics in the contemporary Middle East.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and dates; General introduction: The law in the Islamic renaissance and the role of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr; Part I. Islamic Law and the Constitution: 1. Archetypes of Shi'i law; 2. On the origins of the Iranian constitution: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr's 1979 treatises; 3. The first decade of the Iranian constitution: problems of the least dangerous branch; Part II. Islamic Law, 'Islamic Economics' and the Interest-Free Bank: 4. Law and the discovery of 'Islamic economics'; 5. Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr and Islamic banking; Conclusion.