Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil

This volume, Justice and Leadership, is a compendium of legal history in the early Islamic period with a focus on the concepts and practices in the judicial discourse of Islam. The volume, which brought different worlds –social, political, and religious– of legal history together, is a beneficial read for students of Islamic law.

The book is a conceptual journey through the concept of Salafism, which removes ambiguities for the readers, particularly saving readers from being trapped in the conceptual chimera which emanates from the presumptions inherent in the prevailing, mis-constructed history of Salafism. Lauzière reconceptualizes Salafism and makes it clear for the 21st century readers.