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Fatwas and the Fabric of Law: Shariah in Practice in India
Arun Shourie’s monumental work The World of Fatwas or The Shariah in Action represents one of the most comprehensive scholarly examinations of Islamic jurisprudence in practice within the Indian subcontinent. This book, drawing from over 18,000 pages of primary source material across forty volumes of fatwa collections, provides an unprecedented window into the mechanism by which Islamic religious law operates at the grassroots level. Shourie’s work is particularly significant for its methodical analysis of five major fatwa collections spanning different Islamic schools of thought – the Barelvi Fatawa-i-Rizvia, the Deobandi Fatawa-i-Ulema Dar al-Ulum, and others. This comprehensive approach allows readers to understand not merely isolated religious pronouncements, but the systematic worldview that underpins Islamic…
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Justice or Farce? Analyzing When Anita Gets Bail by Arun Shourie
In a nation where justice is supposed to be blind but often appears blindfolded by incompetence, corruption, and callous indifference, Arun Shourie’s Anita Gets Bail emerges not as another academic treatise on judicial reform, but as a raw, deeply personal account of what happens when ordinary citizens collide with India’s labyrinthine legal system. This is judicial critique at its most human—written not from the ivory towers of legal scholarship, but from the waiting rooms of district courts where hope withers and dignity dies a slow death. The Personal Becomes Political: A Love Letter to Resilience What makes Shourie’s twenty-seventh book extraordinary is its foundation in lived experience. The narrative begins with a…
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Where Temples Speak and Histories Whisper: A Journey with Deepa Mandlik
India’s temples have always been more than stone or ritual—they are vessels of heritage, culture, and unbroken faith. Deepa Mandlik’s Dynasties of Devotion is not just a book; it’s a journey that invites the reader to linger in the shadows of spires, decipher legends in sculpture, and experience the essence of Indian history through seven extraordinary temples stretching from Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu to the Khmer heartland of Cambodia. To a reader like me, who loves to travel and explore temples, with the recent example of the 8 Aṣtavināyaka Temples in Maharashtra, this book was like a pilgrimage in itself. The Book’s Spirit: Weaving Story With Stone Unlike most academic treatises, Mrs.…
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