The sociology of shari'a : case studies from around the world
Record details
- ISBN: 3319096052
- ISBN: 9783319096056
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 328 pages)
remote - Publisher: Cham : Springer, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Legal pluralism and shari'a / Bryan S. Turner and Adam Possamai -- One state, three legal systems : social cohesion in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious Malaysia / A.B. Shamsul -- Modern law, traditional 'shalish' and civil society activism in Bangladesh / Habibul Haque Khondker -- Semi-official Turkish Muslim legal pluralism : encounters between secular official law and unofficial shari'a / Ihsan Yilmaz -- Soft authoritarianism, social diversity and legal pluralism : the case of Singapore / Bryan S. Turner -- The Philippine shari'a courts and the code of Muslim personal laws / Isabelita Solamo-Antonio -- Shari'a and Muslim women's agency in a multicultural context : recent changes in sports culture / Helen McCue and Ghena Krayem -- Shari'a law in Catholic Italy : a non-agnostic model of accommodation / Vito Breda -- Trial and error : Muslims and shari'a in the German context / Wolf D. Ahmed Aries and James T. Richardson -- Between the sacred and the secular : living Islam in China / Yuting Wang -- The case of the recognition of Muslim personal law in South Africa : colonialism, apartheid and constitutional democracy / Wesahl Domingo -- The constitutionalization of shari'a in Muslim societies : comparing Indonesia, Tunisia and Egypt / Arskal Salim -- Legal pluralism and the shari'a : a comparison of Greece and Turkey / Bryan S. Turner and Berna Zengin Arslan -- Contradictions, conflicts, dilemmas and temporary resolutions : a sociology of law analysis of shari'a in selected Western societies / James T. Richardson -- Perception of shari'a in Sydney and New York newspapers / Adam Possamai, Bryan S. Turner, Joshua Roose, Selda Dagistanli, and Malcolm Voyce -- Profiting from shari'a : Islamic banking and finance in Australia / Salim Farrar -- Shari'a and multiple modernities in Western countries : toward a multi-faith pragmatic modern approach rather than a legal pluralist one? / Adam Possamai -- The future of legal pluralism / Bryan S. Turner and James T. Richardson. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 19, 2014). |
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Subject: | Law and the social sciences -- Islamic countries Islamic law -- Social aspects |