Islam and law in Lebanon : Sharia within and without the state / Morgan Clarke, University of Oxford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Morgan, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Lebanon--Islamic influences.

Law.

Islamic law--Lebanon.

Islamic law.

Law--Islamic influences.

Lebanon.

Physical Description:

xiv, 337 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"The modern state of Lebanon, created after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, is home to eighteen officially recognised different religious communities (or sects). Crucially, political office and representation came to be formally shared along confessional lines, and the privileges of power are distributed accordingly. One such key prerogative is exclusivity when it comes to personal status laws: the family legal affairs of each community. In this book, Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic account of how the sharia is invoked both with Lebanon's state legal system, as Muslim family law, and outside it, as a framework for an Islamic life and society. By bringing together an in-depth analysis of Lebanon's state-sponsored sharia courts with a look at the wider world of religious instruction, this book highlights the breadth of the sharia and the complexity of the contexts within which it is embedded"-- Provided by publisher.

"The modern state of Lebanon, created after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, is home to eighteen officially recognised different religious communities (or sects). Crucially, political office and representation came to be formally shared along confessional lines, and the privileges of power are distributed accordingly. One such key prerogative is exclusivity when it comes to personal status laws: the family legal affairs of each community. In this book, Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic account of how the sharia is invoked both with Lebanon's state legal system, as Muslim family law, and outside of it, as a framework for an Islamic life and society. By bringing together an in-depth analysis of Lebanon's state-sponsored sharia courts with a look at the wider world of religious instruction, this book highlights the breadth of the sharia and the complexity of the contexts within which it is embedded"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Contextualising Sharia discourse in Lebanon. Court, community and state: a legal genealogy

The consequences for civility

Becoming a shaykh

Lessons in the mosque

Part II. Sharia within the state. Introducing the Sharia courts

Marriage before God and the state

Bringing a case

Rulings and reconciliation

The judge as tragic hero

The wider world of the Sharia

Reform and rebellion. Part III. Sharia outside the State. Becoming an ayatollah

Making law from the bottom up

The limits of authority.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107186316

1107186315

9781316637142

131663714X

OCLC:

1018457924