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Las leyes del Islam (The laws of Islam) was published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1926. The book’s author, Constantino Melhem, a native Arabic speaker and a non-Muslim, sets himself the goal of translating directly from the Arabic and organizing and commenting on the body of Islamic law. His objective, as stated in the preface, is to explain to a Western audience the massive body of laws and rules governing Muslim life and to correct what he regards as misconceptions about the Muslim way of life that have resulted ...