On British Islam (eBook)

Religion, Law, and Everyday Practice in Shariʿa Councils

John R. Bowen (Autor)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400881055 (ISBN)

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John R. Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His books include A New Anthropology of Islam and Blaming Islam.

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On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shari?a councils. These councils concern themselves with religious matters, especially divorce. They have a higher profile in Britain than in other Western nations. Why? Taking a historical and ethnographic look at British Islam, John Bowen examines how Muslims have created distinctive religious institutions in Britain and how shari?a councils interpret and apply Islamic law in a secular British context.Bowen focuses on three specific shari?a councils: the oldest and most developed, in London; a Midlands community led by a Sufi saint and barrister; and a Birmingham-based council in which women play a leading role. Bowen shows that each of these councils represents a prolonged, unique experiment in meeting Muslims' needs in a Western country. He also discusses how the councils have become a flash point in British public debates even as they adapt to the English legal environment.On British Islam highlights British Muslims' efforts to create institutions that make sense in both Islamic and British terms. This balancing act is rarely acknowledged in Britain-or elsewhere-but it is urgent that we understand it if we are to build new ways of living together.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 4 halftones. 1 table.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Ahl al-Hadith • Annulment • arbitration • attempt • Autonomy • Bangladeshis • Barelvi • Barkatullah • Barrister • Birmingham • Birmingham Central Mosque • Britain • British Islam • British Islamic life • British Muslims • British neighborhoods • British Pakistanis • British shariʻa council • Certification • chain migration • child custody • civil courts • civil divorce • civil marriage • common judgment • conservative Muslims • Consideration • Contract • court divorce • Curriculum • Decree nisi • Deliberation • Deoband • Deobandi • Divorce • Divorce in Islam • domestic Islam • Domestic violence • East London Mosque • Economic Cooperation • educational histories • England and Wales • English law • Ethnic Community • Extremism • faith school • Faiz ul-Aqtab Siddiqi • Family Law • Fatwa • Fiqh • Gender Role • Grounds for divorce • Hadith • Hadith studies • Haitham al-Haddad • Halal • hanafi • Hijab • Hijaz community • Hizb ut-Tahrir • Ibn Taymiyyah • inference • Institution • Islam • Islamic act • Islamic courts • Islamic culture • Islamic dietary laws • Islamic divorce • Islamic extremism • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamic institutions • Islamic Jurisprudence • Islamic Law • Islamic marital practices • Islamic public actors • Islamic Radicalism • islamic scholars • Islamic Shariʻa Council • Islamic shariʻa councils • Islamic Studies • Islamic traditions • Islamic ways • Islam in the United Kingdom • Islamism • Jews • judicial temperament • Jurisprudence • Justification • Khilafat Movement • Khula • Law Courts • law firm • Law Review • lawyer • Lecture • legal unity • liberal Muslims • London • Lord Phillips • Madhhab • madrasa • mahr • marriage • marriage in Islam • Maslaha • Maurice Bloch • Moral Panic • Mosque • Muhammad • Muslim • Muslim Arbitration Tribunal • Muslim Community • Muslim immigrants • Muslim migration • Muslim population • Muslims • Muslim schools • Muslim world • naqshbandi • pakistanis • performativity • petitioner • Politics • postcolonial Britain • practical convergence • Precedent • Protestantism • qadi • qureshi • Religion • religious act • religious communities • Religious Community • religious divorce • religious faculties • religious governance • Religious Issues • religious marriage • Routledge • Rowan Williams • Salafi movement • Saudi Arabia • Secularism • seminary • Sharia • shariʻa • shariʻa council • shariʻa council practices • shariʻa councils • Sheikh • Shia Islam • Social Transformations • Solicitor • South Asia • spouse • state school • Statute • Sufi • Sufi sanctity • Sufism • Sunni Islam • Tablighi Jamaat • tariqa • theological allegiances • Transnational ties • Usama Hasan • Women • Yusuf al-Qaradawi
• ISBN-13: 9781400881055 / 9781400881055