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ajiss-1564	Fadel, Mohammad	Islamic Law and the Challenge of Modernity: By Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Barbara Freyer Stowasser, eds. (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2004. 264 pages.)	2007.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1177	41	41	This book includes eight articles on various aspects of Islamic law in the modern world, as well as an introduction by the two editors. Wael Hallaq’s article is the most provocative, for he suggests that because the traditional socioeconomic infrastructure that supported the Shari`ah as a social institution in the pre-modern world has vanished in the face of the centralized state, the Shari`ah cannot be restored without revolu- tionary institutional changes in the Arab state that would, at a minimum, give religious scholars the institutional independence to formulate a legiti- mate vision of Islamic law.	cache/ajiss-1564.pdf	txt/ajiss-1564.txt