Sources of Authority and Authenticity in American Shar'ia Law

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" Sources of Authority and Authenticity in American Shar'ia Law "
Kristina Elizabeth Benson Hale, Sondra

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	803426
Doc. No	:	TL48214
Call number	:	‭1681959750;‮ ‬3702236‬
Main Entry	:	Browne, Craig McCrea
Title & Author	:	Sources of Authority and Authenticity in American Shar'ia Law\ Kristina Elizabeth BensonHale, Sondra
College	:	University of California, Los Angeles
Date	:	2015
Degree	:	Ph.D.
field of study	:	Islamic Studies 0474
student score	:	2015
Page No	:	248
Note	:	Committee members: Abou el Fadl, Khaled M.; Bali, Asli U.; Waldinger, Roger
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-73437-9
Abstract	:	In this project, I use anthropological, sociological, and ethnographic methodologies to interrogate the production of religious knowledge and concepts surrounding authority and authenticity for U.S. Muslims in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. First, I ask who exercises interpretive authority over religious texts to produce religious knowledge for the community. Second, I ask how Muslim Americans determine that religious knowledge is authoritative. Finally, I examine the extent to which there are tensions between American and Islamic values (however understood), and ask how these tensions are resolved .
Subject	:	Religion; American studies; Islamic Studies
Descriptor	:	Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;American muslims;Hijab;Islam;Muslim americans;Muslims;Sharia law
Added Entry	:	Hale, Sondra
Added Entry	:	Islamic Studies 0474University of California, Los Angeles