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Title Legal pluralism in Muslim contexts / edited by Norbert Oberauer, Yvonne Prief, Ulrike Qubaja
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019

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Series Studies in Islamic law and society ; volume 49
Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 49.
Contents Muslim legal practice in the United Kingdom : the Muslim arbitration tribunal / Yvonne Prief -- Unregistered Muslim marriages in the United Kingdom / Vishal Vora -- Muslims of Greece : a legal paradox and a political failure / Konstantinos Tsitselikis -- Islamic law as indigenous law : Sharia courts in Israel from a postcolonial perspective / Ido Shahar -- Nation building, Islamic law and unofficial legal pluralism : the cases of Turkey and Pakistan / Ihsan Yilmaz -- Constitutional recognition of Islamic family law and Sharia courts in Ethiopia : governmental strategies to co-regulate the plural family law arena / Katrin Seidel -- Legal pluralism in the southern West Bank : the impact of honour as a factor on developments towards an increased consideration of rule-of-law principles in clan-based justice / Ulrike Qubaja -- Legal pluralism in Indonesia : the case of interfaith marriages involving Muslims / Judith Koschorke -- Contextualising Malaysia's Islamic law : a nuanced perspective / Karen Meerschaut and Werner de Saeger
Summary Approaches to legal pluralism vary widely across the spectrum of different disciplines. They comprise normative and descriptive perspectives, focus both on legal pluralist realities as well as public debates, and address legal pluralism in a range of different societies with varying political, institutional and historical conditions. Emphasising an empirical research to contemporary legal pluralist settings in Muslim contexts, the present collected volume contributes to a deepened understanding of legal pluralist issues and realities through comparative examination. This approach reveals some common features, such as the relevance of Islamic law in power struggles and in the construction of (state or national) identities, strategies of coping with coexisting sets of legal norms by the respective agents, or public debates about the risks induced by the recognition of religious institutions in migrant societies. At the same time, the studies contained in this volume reveal that legal pluralist settings often reflect very specific historical and social constellations, which demands caution towards any generalisation. The volume is based on papers presented at a conference in Münster (Germany) in 2016 and comprises contributions by Judith Koschorke, Karen Meeschaut, Yvonne Prief, Ulrike Qubaja, Werner de Saeger, Ido Shahar, Katrin Seidel, Konstantinos Tsitselikis, Vishal Vora and Ihsan Yilmaz
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Legal polycentricity -- Congresses
Islamic law -- Congresses
Islamic law -- Non-Islamic countries -- Congresses
Muslims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Congresses
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
LAW -- Reference.
Islamic law
Legal polycentricity
Muslims -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Non-Islamic countries
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Oberauer, Norbert, editor
Prief, Yvonne, editor
Qubaja, Ulrike, editor
LC no. 2019018853
ISBN 9004398260
9789004398269