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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Layered and Complicated: Migration and Settlement in the United States and Germany -- 2. Guilty by Association: Iran, the US, and the Power of Global Politics -- 3. Refugees and Ausländers: The Persistence of Racial Nationalism -- 4. Racial and Cultural Flexibility: Conditional Belonging in the United States and Germany -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Research Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- A Note on Persian and Arabic Transliteration and Translation -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter I: Women in the Sasanian Zoroastrianism -- Chapter II: Zoroastrian Dadestan: From Sasanian Era to Islam -- Chapter III: Purification -- Chapter IV: Islam and Menstruation -- Chapter V: Sexual Relations in Zoroastrianism and Islam -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Glossary

"This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad period of time - from the eighth to the eighteenth century - to demonstrate how jurists interpreted the law and reconciled their decisions with the scripture and the sayings of the Prophet. The result is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings"--