Carrying the One Ring of non-identity, Chapter 1 has endorsed The Fellowship of three great thinkers: Roy Bhaskar, Shahab Ahmed, and Marshall McLuhan. It has also subscribed to Calder’s portrayal of Islamic law as ‘a conceptual replica of social life,

not necessarily aspiring to be either complete or practical, but balanced between revelation, tradition and reality’ (1996, p. 981). This chapter focuses on the first of these three elements. More precisely, by investi­gating how differently religion relates to law in the Occident and the Orient, it will try to translate the space of the revelation of Islam to the Western explorer.

Thus, departing from the Temple that we have previously visited, we can imagine we are now in a sort of Middle-Earth, where, as Sauron’s fortress starts to become visible, with its Eye watching over Mordor from the top of Barad-dur, the Ring becomes more difficult to carry.

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