Sharia as discourse
Subtitle: legal traditions and the encounter with Europe
By: by Jørgen S. Nielsen and Lisbet Christoffersen.
Contributors: Christoffersen, Lisbet.
Series: Cultural diversity and law
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey [UK]; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754679554; 9780754698951
Subjects: Conflict of laws -- Europe; Conflict of laws (Islamic law); Islamic law -- Europe; Muslims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Europe; Religion and law -- Europe; Legal polycentricity -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Between renewal and tradition : Sharia as discourse / Jorgen S. Nielsen; title: An encounter of legal theories "clarity or confusion" classical Fiqh and the issue of logic / Mona Siddiqui; title: Demarcating fault-lines within Islam : muslim modernists and hard-line Islamists engage the Sharia / Asma Afsaruddin; title: Islamic jurisprudence and Western legal history / Mark van Hoecke; title: Is Sharia law, religion or a combination? European legal discourses on Sharia / Lisbet Christoffersen; title: Women, secular, and religious laws, and traditions : gendered secularization, gendering Sharia / Hanne Petersen; title: Sharia and Nordic legal contexts / Kjell-åke Modéer; title: Sharia from behind the bench : court culture, judicial culture, and a judge-made discourse on Sharia at a Swedish district court / Matilda Arvidsson; title: Between God and the sultana a legal pluralism in the British Muslim diaspora / Prakash Shah; title: Sharia and secularism in France / Manni Crone; title: Divine law and human understanding : the idea of Shariah in Saudi Arabia /  Dorthe Bramsen; title: Speaking in his name? gender, language, and religion in the Arab media / Dima Dabbous-Sensenig; title: Sharia and the constitutional debate in Egypt / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen; title: Traditions of interpretation within (protestant) Christian theology as compared with Islam / Mogens Müller; title: Rebellious women discourses and texts : Sharia, civil rights, and penal law / Peter Madsen.