"a major contribution to public discourse on this crucial question, having immediate theoretical and practical import." - David Novak, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies, Professor of the Study of Religion, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto "a very solid, well-researched and innovative argument which merits recognition in any discussion of the role of religious thought in America's legal traditions.this ground-breaking book offers an important reference point for more careful considerations of the meanings of religious liberty and the embrace of diversity of beliefs." - Mark D. McGarvie, former Visiting Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School, author, Law and Religion in American History (Cambridge University Press, 2016) "The sources for the book are wide-ranging, the analysis thought-provoking. The results contribute meaningfully both to modern religious history and to contemporary American debates." - Peter N.

Stearns, Provost Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor, Modern European, American and comparative social and world history, George Mason University This is the first comparative study of Mosaic and Islamic law in American history. Constructing a complex picture in trans-Atlantic, trans-European and world historical perspective, this book elucidates the deeper intersecting storylines which 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 as these debates have taken shape in close connection with both resurgent anti-Semitism as well as anti-Sharia protests and anti-Sharia legislation throughout the United States (and other Western societies). Building in interdisciplinary fashion from previous scholarship in several related fields, this work takes American religious, cultural, political, and legal history in new directions, making its own unique contributions to the history and historiography while also opening new angles of exploration for future research. R. Charles Weller is Associate Professor of History at Washington State University, and Senior Research Fellow, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. He has also been a visiting fellow at Yale University, a visiting researcher at Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and Affiliate (Research) Faculty of History at George Mason University.