Conceptualizing Shari\u27a in the Modern State

THIS Article addresses the animated and evolving role that Shari\u27a, i.e., the system of Islamic jurisprudence collectively or generally, and Shari\u27a conceptions play in the contemporary world. There are various manifestations of this evolving role in the often dynamic, subtle, highly negotiated, and far from formalistic ways that Shari\u27a is animated in today\u27s world. There are three main points that I will address in this Article. First is to provide some insight into the various ways that Shari\u27a has been manifesting in the recent revolutions sweeping through the Arabic-speaking world, while at the same time contrasting the rather curious case of the various anti-Shari\u27a legislations proposed in parts of the United States, as well as some of the anti-Shari\u27a European discourses taking place. Second, I will address two basic conceptualizations of Shari\u27a that we find historically not just persistent, but historically competing and often wrestling for space. Although these conceptualizations have clear points of demarcation and delineation, they are quite broad and disagree in some fundamental and basic assumptions, particularly in epistemological, as well as ontological and deontological, assumptions;Finally, I will address the way that the assumptions of each of these conceptualized perspectives or schools of thought in Shari\u27a have expressed themselves in various ages and historical contexts. Indeed, we find that there are very particular attributes or particular characteristics to the way that each conceptualized view of Shari\u27a expresses itself in various historical contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Villanova Law Review is the property of Villanova University School of Law and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder\u27s express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.

A CONSIDERATION OF THE MATERIALS FOR TEACHING PAST TENSES IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR COURSE BOOKS

The study examines 30 grammar course books to find out how past tense lessons are organised, and what kind of approaches are adopted by materials’ developers to design them for the different targeted learners (Beginners to advanced). Various pedagogical frameworks for the design of teaching materials are reviewed, in the light of SLA research findings related to the acquisition of grammar. To examine the constructs of past tenses in the selected sample of course books, the methodology adopted in this research draws on mix-methods and case study (quantitative and qualitative analyses) for the purpose of ensuring validity. Data was collected using checklists that aim to account for the different components used by material developers to teach past tenses including form, meaning and activities. The findings reveal a strong implication of internal and external factors of L2 acquisition in the process of designing past tenses materials. Finally, the results indicate an interesting trend about the different uses of grammar activities according to learners’ language proficiency level. In this way, the findings of the present research seem to contradict the previous studies that claim the unique use of controlling activities by materials developers

Islamic Law and Ambivalent Scholarship

This book reminds me of the image of the arrogantly condescending and blustering tourist in Cairo who drifts into a store that has taken the trouble of prominently displaying the price of their commodities in nicely typed tags. Nevertheless, the tourist walks in, reads the price tag, and then proclaims, Okay, what is the real price? The poor store employee stares at him with incredulity, and simply repeats the price on the tag, and, in response, the tourist emits this knowing and smug smile as if saying, I know you guys, you never mean what you say; everything in Arab culture is negotiable, everything is subject to bargaining, and I will not be fooled. Of course, the tourist misses the point. The price on the tag is the real price, and there is no expectation of haggling, bargaining, or any other reconstruction of reality. Before arriving in Cairo, however, the tourist has already received a steady dosage of advice about the Arab bazaar. Everything, the tourist is told, in the Arab market is negotiable; so never take any of the advertised prices at face value, and argue and haggle to your heart\u27s content. Lawrence Rosen\u27s book is not intended to give advice to tourists about how to get the most for their money; it is nothing short of an attempt to explain the Islamic and Arab conception of justice. The author explicitly adopts the bazaar as the relevant model for understanding Islamic conceptions of justice, whether old or new, rural or urban, social or legal, or Muslim or Arab. But like our haggling tourist, whether intentionally or not, he ends up essentializing and deprecating his subject into a caricature that, although based on some truth, is largely a fictional invention

Conceptualizing Shari\u27a in the Modern State

THIS Article addresses the animated and evolving role that Shari\u27a, i.e., the system of Islamic jurisprudence collectively or generally, and Shari\u27a conceptions play in the contemporary world. There are various manifestations of this evolving role in the often dynamic, subtle, highly negotiated, and far from formalistic ways that Shari\u27a is animated in today\u27s world. There are three main points that I will address in this Article. First is to provide some insight into the various ways that Shari\u27a has been manifesting in the recent revolutions sweeping through the Arabic-speaking world, while at the same time contrasting the rather curious case of the various anti-Shari\u27a legislations proposed in parts of the United States, as well as some of the anti-Shari\u27a European discourses taking place. Second, I will address two basic conceptualizations of Shari\u27a that we find historically not just persistent, but historically competing and often wrestling for space. Although these conceptualizations have clear points of demarcation and delineation, they are quite broad and disagree in some fundamental and basic assumptions, particularly in epistemological, as well as ontological and deontological, assumptions;Finally, I will address the way that the assumptions of each of these conceptualized perspectives or schools of thought in Shari\u27a have expressed themselves in various ages and historical contexts. Indeed, we find that there are very particular attributes or particular characteristics to the way that each conceptualized view of Shari\u27a expresses itself in various historical contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Villanova Law Review is the property of Villanova University School of Law and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder\u27s express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.

Soul Searching and the Spirit of Shari\u27a: A Review of Bernard Weiss\u27s The Spirit of Islamic Law

In this book review, Khaled Abou El Fadl offers a review of Bernard G. Weiss\u27, The Spirit of Islamic Law

THE DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF THE ACQUISITION OF PAST TENSE-ASPECT MORPHOLOGY (Review of the literature)

This paper represents a conceptualization of L1 and L2 developmental stages of the acquisition of English past tense aspect verbal morphology. It constitutes the theoretical chapter of a PhD doctoral thesis that investigates the acquisition of past tense-aspect verbal morphology of EFL Moroccan university learners. The paper basically attempts to provide a recent review of related studies that account for the thesis topic. Primarily, it collects and reproduce the major and the prominent results that tackles the emergence of -ed and -ing past markers in the L1 and L2 context.  Various studies attempted to give an understanding the nature of English past markers in different contexts adopting longitudinal or cross-sectional method, either in the natural environment or in the instructed one. Actually, this paper attempts to provide a consistent body of literature to account for the nature of the processes responsible for the emergence the tense-aspect system which differs from L1 to EFL context. Despite discrepancies in the findings, there’s still a consensus on the route of acquisition that seems to be similar among L1 and L2 learners with some respect. Therefore, most researchers seek to investigate the emergence of past tenses marking system through approaching how the interplay between the situational aspect and viewpoint aspect took place. However, this paper will focus on a prototype-based account to explain the nature of past tense-aspect acquisition development