The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law

If academic writing is to be used as a weapon, it must be used with care. It comes with a professional and moral responsibility. Book reviewers, in particular, owe their readers honesty and fair representation of the works they review, even when they are highly critical of these works. Unfortunately, neither of these qualities is found in Mohammad Akram Nadwi's review of my book The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).1 This long review indulges in a crude and blatant misrepresentation of my book and its arguments, and distorts them beyond recognition in a manner that is insulting not only to the work under review but also to its readership. It is therefore not only the review's misrepresentations that prompt this response, but also, and mainly, the unwarranted misconceptions that it could engender among those new to the discipline who may stop at Nadwi's review, instead of judging the book for themselves

Audience measurement · Honesty · Islam · Misrepresentation · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Islamic Studies and History · History · Law

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