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... of gender inequalities in various legislations and by the enforcement of Sharia pressured by the gains of political Islam. My study draws on the substantial body of literature by local activists and scholars to historicize the current political and economic context of struggle for Muslim women in Africa. I...

... sharia family historiography Ottoman Empire muftis In his ambitious Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean , Beshara B. Doumani seeks to “historicize family and shari‘a” by examining property devolution practices through the institution of the family endowment in the cities of Tripoli...

... calls for further engagement with the Islamic legal tradition in the analysis of sharia court records in order to better understand the relation between state, law, and community. Finally, it elaborates on Doumani's important contributions to the anthropology of kinship. Family Life in the Ottoman...

...” and “full implementation of Sharia” as a political platform sanctioned by revelation. This essay suggests that neither claim is legitimate. Political power is a worldly question. Neither the Koran nor Prophet Muhammad himself claimed that he ruled on behalf of God. Nor did Muslims in the early age of Islam...

...Jean-Michel Landry Abstract In recent years, the problem of gender-based custody allocation has sparked intense mobilization across the Middle East. In Lebanon, Sunni and Shi‘i citizens led two parallel campaigns to modify the sharia-derived norms enforced in custody disputes. Their efforts...

...Chaider S. Bamualim The article discusses a particular Islamist militant movement in Indonesia, the Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, or FPI). Gaining considerable following and influence in post-Suharto Indonesia, the FPI called for the implementation of Sharia law addressing...

... with the new situation. They had to be reduced to enforceable laws by the various sharia schools. The empires inherited the Mesopotamian plains, which required irrigation on a large scale based on massive slave labor. Commercially acquired slaves became the norm, and large concentrations of imported slaves...

...Taymiya R. Zaman Abstract This review article examines Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic in light of the book's challenge to the notion that the sharia consists of Islam's orthodox core, and Muslim literary, artistic, and philosophical truths constitute a periphery...

...Amal Sachedina Abstract Since becoming a nation-state in 1970, Oman's expanding heritage industry has included the restoration of castles and citadels, including the fort at Nizwa. The fort was once the administrative and juridical center of the Ibadi Imamate (1913–58). As the site of sharia...

...Heba Alnajada Abstract Historically, Islamic sharia courts across the Ottoman empire used a document called a hujja for registering property transactions. In present-day Jordan hujaj are illegal, yet in Palestinian refugee camps hujaj continue to be used for inheritance, buying and selling houses...

...” lines—for example, laïcité as state ideology—and to allow for religion to mark the state in one shape or another, without that entailing the legal grounding of the state in sharia as is prevalent among Arab states. It would seem an appropriate compromise between two different visions of the state...

... emphasis on religious 28 tion. Moreover, that “religion” and “religiosity” laws (Sharia) in Islam.3 are not constrained within the confines of a sa­ There are two prevailing approaches cred text must be acknowledged. among modern...

... in the Islamic World, Sami Zubaida its modern form is the law of the state, and the offers a broad overview of the origins of Sharia, judge is a functionary of the state, who has to its institutions, and the changing and varied...

... in the Islamic World, Sami Zubaida its modern form is the law of the state, and the offers a broad overview of the origins of Sharia, judge is a functionary of the state, who has to its institutions, and the changing and varied...

..., “codified law in In Law and Power in the Islamic World, Sami Zubaida its modern form is the law of the state, and the offers a broad overview of the origins of Sharia, judge is a functionary of the state, who has...

... in the Islamic World, Sami Zubaida its modern form is the law of the state, and the offers a broad overview of the origins of Sharia, judge is a functionary of the state, who has to its institutions, and the changing and varied...

... in the Islamic World, Sami Zubaida its modern form is the law of the state, and the offers a broad overview of the origins of Sharia, judge is a functionary of the state, who has to its institutions, and the changing and varied...

.... He believes that Sharia, as a comprehen- sive body of laws issued, not by feeble human Khomeini’s Political Reading of Islam   Kashf-­e asrar (Discovery of Mysteries) is a book writ- minds...

... ekse- and was headed by the caliph, the Islamic spiritual (Beverley, North Humberside, UK: Eothen, 1985), ninde ötekileştirenler” (“Being Different in Turkey: leader who could legislate in areas not covered by chap. 3. Those Who Are ‘Othered’ on the Basis of Nationalism the Sharia. The fez was first...

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