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Legal Pluralism in Muslim Contexts by Norbert Oberauer; Yvonne Prief; Ulrike Qubaja is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Approaches to legal pluralism vary widely across the spectrum of different disciplines. They comprise normative and descriptive perspectives, focus both on legal pluralist realities as well as public debates, and address legal pluralism in a range of different societies with varying political, institutional and historical conditions. Emphasising an empirical research to contemporary legal pluralist settings in Muslim contexts, the present collected volume contributes to a deepened understanding of legal pluralist issues and realities through comparative examination. This approach reveals some common features, such as the relevance of Islamic law in power struggles and in the construction of (state or national) identities, strategies of coping with coexisting sets of legal norms by the respective agents, or public debates about the risks induced by the recognition of religious institutions in migrant societies. At the same time, the studies contained in this volume reveal that legal pluralist settings often reflect very specific historical and social constellations, which demands caution towards any generalisation. The volume is based on papers presented at a conference in Münster (

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Author

Norbert Oberauer; Yvonne Prief; Ulrike Qubaja

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004398269

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Islam, Law, Religion