Palgrave Macmillan Cham has published Moses, Muhammad and Nature’s God in Early American Religious-Legal History, 1640-1830 (Sept. 2024), by R. Charles Weller (Washington State University). A description from the publisher:
This is the first comparative study of Mosaic and Islamic law in
American history to be published. Constructing a complex picture in
trans-Atlantic, trans-European and world historical perspectives, this
book elucidates the intersections that lie beneath and behind the rise
of the debates in the 1990s and 2000s over the promotion of the Ten
Commandments and Mosaic Law as alleged sources of American
Constitutional law and symbols of American national identity. These
debates have taken shape in close connection with resurgent
anti-Semitism, anti-Sharia protests and anti-Sharia legislation
throughout the United States and other Western societies.
More information is available here.
-- Karen Tani
