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A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India

A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India

Sivaramakrishnan, K.
Redding, Jeffrey A.
Yang, Anand A.

Paperback

Series: Global South Asia

Religion General General LawIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0295747080
ISBN13: 9780295747088
Publisher: Univ Of Washington Pr
Published: Apr 15 2020
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Whether from the perspective of Islamic law's advocates, secularism's partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for sharia bans in the courts, in western Europe legal limitations have been imposed on mosques and the wearing of headscarves, and in the Arab Middle East conflicts between secularist old guards and Islamist revolutionaries persist--suggesting that previously unsteady coexistences are transforming into outright hostilities.

Jeffrey Redding's exploration of India's non-state system of Muslim dispute resolution--known as the dar-ul-qaza system and commonly referred to as Muslim courts or shariat courts--challenges conventional narratives about the inevitable opposition between Islamic law and secular forms of governance, demonstrating that Indian secular law and governance cannot work without the significant assistance of non-state Islamic legal actors.

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