The Sociology of Shari’a: Case Studies from Around the World

ISBN-13: 9783031271878 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 340 str.

Adam Possamai; James T. Richardson; Bryan S. Turner

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This edited collection focuses on the comparative analysis of the application of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities (e.g. USA, Australia, Germany and Italy) and majorities (e.g. Malaysia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Morocco). Most chapters in this new edition have been revised and the book as a whole has been updated to give even more international coverage.  This text provides a sociological and global analysis of a phenomenon that goes beyond the ‘West versus the rest’ dichotomy. One example of this is how included are case studies in Muslim minority countries not exclusively located in the West.  Although the contributors of this book come from various disciplines such as law, anthropology, and sociology, this volume has a strong sociological focus on the analysis of Shari’a. The final part of the book indeed draws out from all the case studies explored some ground-breaking theories on the sociology of Shari’a such as the application of Black, Chambliss and Eisenstein’s sociological theories.  This text appeals to students and researchers working in the sociology of religion.  

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Introduction

1.Legal Pluralism and Shari’a

Bryan S. Turner, University of Western Sydney and City University of New York

James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno

Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney

Part 1: Case Studies from Muslim Majority Countries

2.One State, Three Legal Systems: Negotiating justice in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious Malaysia

Shamsul Ab, The National University of Malaysia 

3.Modern Law, Traditional “Salish” and Civil Society Activism in Bangladesh

Habibul Haque Khondker, Zayed University, UAE

4.Semi-official Turkish Muslim Legal Pluralism: Encounters Between Secular Official Law and Unofficial Shari’a 

Ihsan Yilmaz, Fatih University, Istanbul

5. Legal Pragmatism in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Roots and Challenges

Mehran Tamadonfar and Roman B. Lewis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

6. Equivocal Attitudes to Religion in Moroccan Law and Society

Amal Idrissi, University of Moulay Ismail, Meknes, Morocco and Hassan Filala Ansary, Independent Scholar.

Part 2: Case Studies from Muslim Minority Countries

7.Social Diversity and Legal Regulation: The Case of Singapore

Bryan S. Turner, Australian Catholic University

8.Shari’a Courts in the Philippines: Women, Men and Muslim Personal Laws

Isabelita Solamo, PILIPINA Legal Resources Center

9.Shari’a and Muslim Women’s Agency in a Multicultural Context: Recent Changes in Sports Culture

Helen McCue, University of Melbourne

Ghena Kraven, University of Sydney

10.Shari’a Law in Catholic Italy: A non-agnostic model of accommodation

Vito Breda, Cardiff University

11.Trial and Error in Affiliation –Muslims and Shari’a in Germany

Wolf D. Ahmed Aries, the University of Bielefeld; James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno; and  Cemil Sahinöz, Independent scholar.

12.Between the Sacred and the Secular: Living Islam in China

Yuting Wang, The American University of Sharjah.

13.The Case of the Recognition of Muslim Personal Law in South Africa: Colonialism, Apartheid and Constitutional Democracy

Wesahl Domingo, University of the Witwatersrand

14.The Politics of Religion and Culture: Analysing the role of ‘cultural experts’ and the rise of ‘Islamic legal services’ in the UK

Dr. Samia Bano, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) University of London

15.France, Laïcité, and Islam: Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night

T. Jeremy Gunn and Saad Fkihi, International University of Rabat

Part 3: Theoretical and Comparative Considerations

16.The Mutable Meanings of Sharia: From “Path” to Politics

T. Jeremy Gunn, International University of Rabat

17.The constitutionalisation of Shari’a: Comparing Indonesia, Tunisia and Egypt

Arskal Salim, University of Western Sydney

18.Contradictions, Conflicts, Dilemmas and Temporary Resolutions: A Sociology of Law Analysis of Shari’a in Selected Western Countries

James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno

19.Shari’a and Multiple Modernities in Western Countries:

Toward a Multi-Faith Pragmatic Modern Approach Rather Than a Legal Pluralist One?

Adam Possamai, Western Sydney University

Conclusion

20.The Future of Legal Pluralism

Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney

Bryan S. Turner, University of Western Sydney and City University of New York

James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno

O autorze

Adam Possamai is professor in Sociology and Deputy Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. He is the (co)author and (co)editor of 20 books, and close to 100 articles and book chapters. He is a former President of Research Committee 22 on the Sociology of Religion from the International Sociological Association, and a former President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions. His work has been published in English, French, Spanish, Romanian and Slovakian. He was a visiting scholar at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

James T. Richardson, J.D., Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he directed the Judicial Studies graduate degree program for trial judges, and also was a faculty member in the Sociology Department and in the Social Psychology doctoral program. He has published nearly 300 articles and book chapters in his career, mostly about new and minority religious groups, including Islam in western countries. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Rockefeller Fellow, and has been a formal visitor at universities in England, the Netherlands, and Australia.  He has made presentations in over 30 countries during his career. He has served as President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the American Association of University Professors.

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology at the Australian Catholic University He was the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College (2009-10). His publications in the sociology of religion include Weber and Islam (1974), Religion and Social Theory (1983), (with Kamaludeen and Pereira) Muslims in Singapore (2010) and Religion and Modern Society (2011). He is the founding editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and with John O’Neill of the Journal of Classical Sociology. With Anthony Elliot, he published On Society (2012). From 1998-2005 he was professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.  He edited the Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (2006), and was awarded a doctor of letters by the University in 2009.