ABSTRACT
A comprehensive treatment of Sharia and modernity, for which there is no single definition or experience, would necessarily engage the rest of the chapters in this volume, for the intersection of Islam with the modern world implicates all of Islamic law, both its historical and contemporary significance. The aim of this chapter, therefore, is limited to introducing some of the relevant lines of discourse, with a particular focus on Sharia and governance-more specifically, democracy, constitutionalism, and human rights.
