Question to Professor Pipes about a view on Sharia

Submitted by Unknown998 (Germany), Jul 28, 2011 at 16:38

Professor Pipes,

I am very sorry to bother you in your hard and in my opinion very useful work but I wanted to ask:

http://www.danielpipes.org/54/islamic-law-and-legal-system-studies-of-saudi-arabia you wrote that Frank Vogels view of Islamic law was a formidable chalenge to the traditional understanding of it and that it was to the critics to respond to it.....

I haven't found much more about Mr.Vogels view on Sharia on your site and since I am totaly unfamiliar with the academic discussion about the character of Sharia I wanted to ask you if any critic responded this chalenge and answered Frank Vogel?

Since you personaly seem not to have changed your view on Sharia, you dont consider Vogels position valid any more or am I wrong?

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