Sharia Councils And Muslim Women In Britain

Author : Tanya Walker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004331360
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shariʿa Councils and Muslim Women in Britain written by Tanya Walker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shariʿa Councils and Muslim Women in Britain Tanya Walker draws on extensive fieldwork to radically reshape the public understanding of the Shariʿa councils and the motivations of Muslim women who use them.

Author : S. Bano
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137283858
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Women and Shari'ah Councils written by S. Bano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using original empirical data and critiquing existing research, Samia Bano explores the experience of British Muslim woman who use Shari'ah councils to resolve marital disputes. She challenges the language of community rights and claims for legal autonomy in matters of family law showing how law and community can empower as well as restrict women.

Author : John R. Bowen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691158541
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On British Islam written by John R. Bowen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shariʿa councils. These councils concern themselves with religious matters, especially divorce. They have a higher profile in Britain than in other Western nations. Why? Taking a historical and ethnographic look at British Islam, John Bowen examines how Muslims have created distinctive religious institutions in Britain and how shariʿa councils interpret and apply Islamic law in a secular British context. Bowen focuses on three specific shariʿa councils: the oldest and most developed, in London; a Midlands community led by a Sufi saint and barrister; and a Birmingham-based council in which women play a leading role. Bowen shows that each of these councils represents a prolonged, unique experiment in meeting Muslims' needs in a Western country. He also discusses how the councils have become a flash point in British public debates even as they adapt to the English legal environment. On British Islam highlights British Muslims' efforts to create institutions that make sense in both Islamic and British terms. This balancing act is rarely acknowledged in Britain—or elsewhere—but it is urgent that we understand it if we are to build new ways of living together.

Author : Anna Marotta
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004473092
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Geo-Legal Approach to the English Sharia Courts written by Anna Marotta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on the Islamic ADR institutions in England through the lens of Comparative Law and Geopolitics.

Author : Samia Bano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000863913
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sharia Inquiry, Religious Practice and Muslim Family Law in Britain written by Samia Bano and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 2018, the ‘Independent Review on Sharia Law in England and Wales’ was published, headed by Professor Mona Siddiqui. The review focused on whether sharia law is being misused or applied in a way that is incompatible with the domestic law in England and Wales, and, in particular, whether there were discriminatory practices against women who use sharia councils. It came about after years of concerns raised by academics, lawyers and women’s activists. This timely collection of essays from experts, scholars and legal practitioners provides a critique and evaluation of the Inquiry findings as a starting point for analysis and debate on current British Muslim family law practices in the matters of marriage and divorce. At the heart of the collection lie key questions of state action and legal reform of religious practices that may operate ‘outside the sphere of law and legal relations’ but also in conjunction with state law mechanisms and processes. This cutting-edge book is a must read for those with an interest in Islamic law, family law, sociology of religion, human rights, multiculturalism, politics, anthropology of law and gender studies.

Author : Shaheen Sardar Ali
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033381
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Challenges to Islamic Law written by Shaheen Sardar Ali and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers unique insights into Islamic law, considering its theoretical perspectives alongside its practical application in daily Muslim life.

Author : Kathleen Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190452714
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfamiliar Abode written by Kathleen Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there are more Muslims living in diaspora than at any time in history. This situation was not envisioned by Islamic law, which makes no provision for permanent as opposed to transient diasporic communities. Western Muslims are therefore faced with the necessity of developing an Islamic law for Muslim communities living in non-Muslim societies. In this book, Kathleen Moore explores the development of new forms of Islamic law and legal reasoning in the US and Great Britain, as well the Muslims encountering Anglo-American common law and its unfamiliar commitments to pluralism and participation, and to gender, family, and identity. The underlying context is the aftermath of 9/11 and 7/7, the two attacks that arguably recast the way the West views Muslims and Islam. Islamic jurisprudence, Moore notes, contains a number of references to various 'abodes' and a number of interpretations of how Muslims should conduct themselves within those worlds. These include the dar al harb (house of war), dar al kufr (house of unbelievers), and dar al salam (house of peace). How Islamic law interprets these determines the debates that take shape in and around Islamic legality in these spaces. Moore's analysis emphasizes the multiplicities of law, the tensions between secularism and religiosity. She is the first to offer a close examination of the emergence of a contingent legal consciousness shaped by the exceptional circumstances of being Muslim in the U.S and Britain in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century

Author : Professor Ralph Grillo
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 147245121X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Families, Politics and the Law written by Professor Ralph Grillo and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam generally and the Muslim family in particular have become highly politicized sites of contestation. This book focuses on the way in which gender relations and associated questions of (women’s) agency, consent and autonomy, have become the focus of political and social commentary, and the implications this has for British multiculturalism. The book also includes a detailed overview of the public debate about the application of Islamic legal and ethical norms (Shari’a) in family law matters, and the associated role of Shari’a councils, in a British context.

Author : Kathryn O'Sullivan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004398252
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minority Religions under Irish Law written by Kathryn O'Sullivan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minority Religions under Irish Law focuses the spotlight specifically on the legal protections afforded in Ireland to minority religions, generally, and to the Muslim community, in particular.

Author : Elham Manea
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781784536138
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Shari'a Law written by Elham Manea and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should shari'a law be introduced into the British legal system? Elham Manea explores this question by building on her knowledge of legal pluralism in Middle Eastern and Islamic countries and by first-hand analysis of the Islamic shari'a councils and Muslim arbitration tribunals in various British cities. Women and Shari'a Law traces how support for legal pluralism evolved in the context of widespread racism and anti-immigrant sentiments leading up to the Race Relations Act of 1968. Through its focus on gender equality and women's experiences, the book argues that the desire to resolve conflict, accommodate Muslim minorities, and reform a Euro-American-centric legal system developed into 'The Essentialist Paradigm'. This is a post-colonial and post-modern discourse that treats people as 'homogenous groups', essentialising their cultures and religions, but disregarding individual and authentic voices. By meeting with the leading sheikhs--including the only women on their panels--as well as interviewing experts on extremism, lawyers, politicians and activists in civil society and women's rights groups, the author offers a critique of legal pluralism, connecting it with political Islam and detailing the lived experiences of women in Muslim communities.