Sherman Jackson on Shariah and Democracy
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Sherman Jackson is King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture, Director, Center for Islamic Thought, Culture and Practice and Professor of Religion and of American Studies and Ethnicity. http://web.stanford.edu/dept/islamic_studies/cgi-bin/web/?p=7589
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