Ibid., p. 107

Ibid., p. 106

Louis Milliot, Introduction a I etude du droit musulman (Paris: Sirey, 1953), p. 103

Tarmidi, Al-Sunan (Medina: Matba'at al-Kutbi, Al-Maktaba al-Salafiya, n.d.)

Imam Muslim, Al-Sahih (Beirut: Al-Maktab al-Tijari lil-Tib'a wal Nashr, n.d.)

Imam Bukhari, Al-Sahih (Beirut: Dar al-Ma'rifa, n.d.)

Imam Malik, Al-Muwatta (Beirut: Mansurat Dar al-Afaq al-Jadida, 1979)

The English translation used is the following: The Glorious Koran, a Bilingual Edition with English Translation, Introduction and Notes by Marmaduke Pickthall (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1976). All Koranic quotations and citations are from this edition

M. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962), p. 154

This is not meant to suggest that these characteristics are exclusive to Islam. The »soi-belle-et-tais-toi« attitude in sophisticated France and the »dumb blond« image in profit-making, much less sophisticated Hollywood, are well known. I refrain from pointing out the comparisons because I trust the readers to make their own comparisons as long as the Muslim model is shaped with crystal clarity