On British Islam religion, law, and everyday practice in shari'a councils
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
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Princeton, NJ Oxford, UK
Princeton University Press
[2016]
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| Series: | Princeton studies in Muslim politics
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Table of Contents:
- Why Shari'a in Britain?
- tTransplanting ties
- Islamic topographies
- tBackground to the Shari'a councils
- Improvising an institution
- Unstable performativity
- Competing justifications
- When women rule in Birmingham
- Sufi encompassments Shari'a in English law
- When can Shari'a be British?
- Internal debates and practical convergences
- Conclusions