book reviews 136 "unique" combination of piety and pulchritude that he has encountered in the ÈadÊth and fiqh, and his conviction that prescriptive religious sources are our single best guide to social history (largely grounded, it appears, on the fact that he has barely looked at any others), tell us more about his particular focus than about the societies he purports to be explicating.
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