ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anver M. Emon is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. Emon's research focuses on premodern and modern Islamic legal history and theory; premodern modes of governance and adjudication; and the role of Shari'a both inside and outside the Muslim world. The author of Islamic Natural Law Theories (OUP 2010) and Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue (with M Levering and D Novak, OUP 2014), Professor Emon is the founding editor of Middle East Law and Governance: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and one of the general editors of the Oxford Islamic Legal Studies series.

CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Dhimmis, Shari'a, and Empire
2. Reason, Contract, and the Obligation to Obey
3. Pluralism, Dhimmi Rules, and the Regulation of Difference
4. The Rationale of Empire and the Hegemony of Law
5. Shari'a as Rule of Law
6. The Dhimmi Rules in the Post-Colonial Muslim State
7. Religious Minorities and the Empire of the Law
Conclusion