The Fatigue is the Sharia: Old and New Debates

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Discusses old and new debates on the viability, illness, and death of the Shari'a. The Shari'a is broadly understood as the laws of Islam, though this concept is fine tuned considerably in the course of our discussions. The course places on a continuum two kinds of debates: debates in the Islamic tradition about the end of access to divine guidance and debates in modern scholarship in Islamic legal studies about the end of the Shari'a. The resulting continuum covers what access to divine guidance means and how it relates to Shari'a.