The Politics Of Sharia Law

Author : Iza R. Hussin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022632348X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Islamic Law written by Iza R. Hussin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Politics of Islamic Law, Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of ‘Islamic law.’ She demonstrates that not only is Islamic law not the shari’ah, its present institutional forms, substantive content, symbolic vocabulary, and relationship to state and society—in short, its politics—are built upon foundations laid during the colonial encounter. Drawing on extensive archival work in English, Arabic, and Malay—from court records to colonial and local papers to private letters and visual material—Hussin offers a view of politics in the colonial period as an iterative series of negotiations between local and colonial powers in multiple locations. She shows how this resulted in a paradox, centralizing Islamic law at the same time that it limited its reach to family and ritual matters, and produced a transformation in the Muslim state, providing the frame within which Islam is articulated today, setting the agenda for ongoing legislation and policy, and defining the limits of change. Combining a genealogy of law with a political analysis of its institutional dynamics, this book offers an up-close look at the ways in which global transformations are realized at the local level.

Author : Robert W. Hefner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253223105
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shari'a Politics written by Robert W. Hefner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important developments in Muslim politics in recent years has been the spread of movements calling for the implementation of Shari'a or Islamic law. Shari'a Politics maps the ideals and organization of these movements and examines their implications for the future of democracy, citizen rights, and gender relations in the Muslim world. These studies of eight Muslim-majority societies, and state-of-the-field reflections by leading experts, provide the first comparative investigation of movements for and against implementation of Shari'a. These essays reveal that the Muslim public's interest in Shari'a does not spring from an unchanging devotion to received religious tradition, but from an effort to respond to the central political and ethical questions of the day. -- Publisher description.

Author : Michael Buehler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107130220
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Shari'a Law written by Michael Buehler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and timely exploration of the continuing Islamization of Indonesian politics despite the electoral decline of Islamist parties.

Author : Farhat Haq
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429619995
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharia and the State in Pakistan written by Farhat Haq and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the formulation, interpretation and implementation of sharia in Pakistan and its relationship with the Pakistani state whilst addressing the complexity of sharia as a codified set of laws. Drawing on insights from Islamic studies, anthropology and legal studies to examine the interactions between ideas, institutions and political actors that have enabled blasphemy laws to become the site of continuous controversy, this book furthers the readers’ understanding of Pakistani politics and presents the transformation of sharia from a pluralistic religious precepts to a set of rigid laws. Using new materials, including government documents and Urdu language newspapers, the author contextualises the larger political debate within Pakistan and utilises a comparative and historical framework to weave descriptions of various events with discussions on sharia and blasphemy. A contribution to the growing body of literature, which explores the role of state in shaping the religion and religious politics in Muslim-majority countries, this book will be of interest to academics working on South Asian Politics, Political Islam, Sharia Law, and the relationship of Religion and the State.

Author : Arskal Salim
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shari'a and Politics in Modern Indonesia written by Arskal Salim and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the fall of President Soeharto, there have been heightened attempts by certain groups of Muslims to have sharia (Islamic law) implemented by the state. Even though this burning issue is not new, it has further divided Indonesian Muslims. The introduction of Islamic law would also affect the future of multi-cultural and multi-religious Indonesia. So far, however, the introduction of sharia nationwide has been opposed by the majority of Indonesian Muslims. This book gives an overview of sharia from post-Independence in 1945 to the most recent developments in Indonesia at the start of the new millennium.

Author : Mark Fathi Massoud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832784
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shari‘a, Inshallah written by Mark Fathi Massoud and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shari'a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari'a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.

Author : Aziz Al-Azmeh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113461005X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Law (RLE Politics of Islam) written by Aziz Al-Azmeh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book underlines the mutability of Islamic law and attempts to relate its substantive and institutional varieties and transformations to social, political, economic and other historical circumstances. The studies in the book range from discussion of the received wisdom in Islamic law to studies of legal institutions and the theoretical means employed by Islamic law for the accommodation of changing historical circumstances. First published in 1988.

Author : Rumee Ahmed
Publisher : Encountering Traditions
ISBN 13 : 9780804794015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharia Compliant written by Rumee Ahmed and published by Encountering Traditions. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the ins and outs of Islamic legal change and provides readers with step-by-step instructions for shaping the future of Islamic law.

Author : Denis MacEoin
Publisher : Civitas Book Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharia Law Or 'one Law for All?' written by Denis MacEoin and published by Civitas Book Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sharia law is a distillation of rulings that purport to represent the divine diktat in all worldly affairs. It provides injunctions for the conduct of criminal, public and even international law. Marriage and divorce, the custody of children, alimony, sexual impropriety and much else come within its remit Sharia courts are operating in Britain, handing down rulings that may be inappropriate to this country, being linked to elements in Islamic law that are seriously out of step with trends in Western legislation that derive from the values of the Enlightenment and are inherent in modern codes of human rights. Sharia rulings contain great potential for controversy and may involve acts contrary to UK legal norms and human rights legislation. Denis MacEoin argues against the wider use of sharia law."--Back cover.

Author : Abbas Amanat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804779538
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shari’a written by Abbas Amanat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents ten leading scholars' writings on contemporary Islamic law and Muslim thought. The essays examine a range of issues, from modern Muslim discourses on justice, natural law, and the common good, to democracy, the social contract, and "the authority of the preeminent jurist." Changes in how Shari'a has been understood over the centuries are explored, as well as how it has been applied in both Sunni and Shi'i Islam. Debates on the nature, interpretation, reform, and application of Shari'a lie at the core of all Islamist revivalist ideologies and movements of the past two centuries. The demand for the implementation of Shari'a is one of the hallmarks of Islamic fundamentalism, and Shari'a has become one of the most controversial and politicized concepts in Muslim-majority countries today. This is one of the first books to examine how Muslims understand and apply Shari'a in contemporary societies.