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4 S Jackson, Islamic Law and the State: the constitutional jurisprudence of Shihab al-Dın al-Qarafi (Leiden, 1996).

5 See Ibn ‘Arabi, al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya (Cairo, 1293 AH), vol 1, pp 562–563; F Rosenthal, ‘Fiction and reality: sources for the role of sex in medieval Muslim society’ in A al-Sayyid-Marsot (ed), Society and the Sexes in Medieval Islam (Malibu, CA, 1979), pp 3–22.

6 L Rosen, The Justice of Islam (New York, 2000), p 23.