Legal Pluralism in Muslim Contexts

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39821-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Studies in Islamic Law and Society

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 Meerschaut, Yvonne Prief, Ulrike Qubaja, Werner de Saeger, Ido Shahar, Katrin Seidel, Konstantinos Tsitselikis, Vishal Vora and Ihsan Yilmaz.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oberauer, Norbert

Prief, Yvonne

Qubaja, Ulrike

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Norbert Oberauer

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: Shari¯'a 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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Norbert Oberauer is Professor at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Münster. His main areas of research include Islamic contract law, islamic legal history and legal hermeneutics (usul al-fiqh).

Ulrike Qubaja, M.A., is social counsellor and teacher of Social Work at AWO Hamburg e.V. She is writing a PhD dissertation on clan-based customary law in the southern Palestinian Westbank and was a Junior Researcher at the University of Münster from 2013 to 2017.

Yvonne Prief, M.A., is academic researcher at the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. She holds a degree in Islamic Studies, Public Law and Political Science and is writing a PhD on Muslim legal practice in the United Kingdom.