Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and dates; General introduction: The law in the Islamic renaissance and the role of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr; Part I. Islamic Law and the Constitution: 1. Archetypes of Shi'i law; 2. On the origins of the Iranian constitution: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr's 1979 treatises; 3. The first decade of the Iranian constitution: problems of the least dangerous branch; Part II. Islamic Law, 'Islamic Economics' and the Interest-Free Bank: 4. Law and the discovery of 'Islamic economics'; 5. Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr and Islamic banking; Conclusion.

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A study of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - an Iraqi scholar whose ideas were influential in the rise of political Islam.