I especially thank the many British Muslim scholars of Islam who welcomed
me into their working worlds to learn more about what they do. I
single out Khurram Bashir, Amra Bone, Haitham al-Haddad,
Khola Hasan,
Suhaib Hasan, Usama Hasan, Atif Matin, Ibrahim Mogra, Abu Sayeed, and
Faiz ul-Aqtab
Siddiqi for their patience and openness. Among the many other
British colleagues who have contributed to my thinking on these issues are
Qamar Bhatti, Robin Griffith-Jones,
Stephen Hockman, Aina Khan, Maleiha
Malik, Werner Menski, and Prakash Shah. Portions of chapter 10 appeared in
John R. Bowen, “How Could English Courts Recognize Shariah?”, St. Thomas
Law Review 7 (3): 411–35,
2011.
At Princeton University Press, once again I am delighted to thank Fred
Appel for his ideas and support, and for this volume I am grateful to Natalie
Baan and Cathy Slovensky for their careful editorial work. At Washington
University I remain grateful for the support of Georgia Dunbar Van Cleve and
her late husband Bill, as well as for all the day-to-
day
support that all of us
fortunate to work here derive from the university as a whole. I also received
valuable support from the National Science Foundation (#0961272, 2010).