Divorcing Traditions : : Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism / / Katherine Lemons.
Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is crit...
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Lemons, Katherine, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Divorcing Traditions : Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism / Katherine Lemons. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (246 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. The State -- Chapter 1. Regulating Kinship under Legal Pluralism -- Chapter 2. Muslim Divorce, Secularism's Crucible -- PART II. The Qazi -- Chapter 3. Shari'a Courts' Family Values -- Chapter 4. The Converging Jurisprudence of Divorce -- PART III. The Mufti -- Chapter 5. "Talaq, Talaq, Talaq . . ." -- Chapter 6. The Healing Jurist -- Conclusion. Divorcing Traditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understanding of Indian secularism. Lemons analyzes four marital dispute adjudication forums run by Muslim jurists or lay Muslims to show that religious law does not muddle the categories of religion and law but generates them. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted in these four institutions-NGO-run women's arbitration centers (mahila panchayats); sharia courts (dar ul-qazas); a Muslim jurist's authoritative legal opinions (fatwas); and the practice of what a Muslim legal expert (mufti) calls "spiritual healing"-Divorcing Traditions shows how secularism is an ongoing project that seeks to establish and maintain an appropriate relationship between religion and politics. A secular state is always secularizing. And yet, as Lemons demonstrates, the state is not the only arbiter of the relationship between religion and law: religious legal forums help to constitute the categories of private and public, religious and secular upon which secularism relies. In the end, because Muslim legal expertise and practice are central to the Indian legal system and because Muslim divorce's contested legal status marks a crisis of the secular distinction between religion and law, Muslim divorce, argues Lemons, is a key site for understanding Indian secularism. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Divorce (Islamic law) India. Divorce Law and legislation India. Islam and state India. Legal polycentricity India. Secularism India. Anthropology. Asian Studies. Religious Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110651980 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics, Law & Social Sciences 2019 ENG 9783110610130 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2019 9783110606485 ZDB-23-DSW print 9781501734786 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501734793 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501734793 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501734793/original |
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Lemons, Katherine, Lemons, Katherine, Divorcing Traditions : Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. The State -- Chapter 1. Regulating Kinship under Legal Pluralism -- Chapter 2. Muslim Divorce, Secularism's Crucible -- PART II. The Qazi -- Chapter 3. Shari'a Courts' Family Values -- Chapter 4. The Converging Jurisprudence of Divorce -- PART III. The Mufti -- Chapter 5. "Talaq, Talaq, Talaq . . ." -- Chapter 6. The Healing Jurist -- Conclusion. Divorcing Traditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. The State -- Chapter 1. Regulating Kinship under Legal Pluralism -- Chapter 2. Muslim Divorce, Secularism's Crucible -- PART II. The Qazi -- Chapter 3. Shari'a Courts' Family Values -- Chapter 4. The Converging Jurisprudence of Divorce -- PART III. The Mufti -- Chapter 5. "Talaq, Talaq, Talaq . . ." -- Chapter 6. The Healing Jurist -- Conclusion. Divorcing Traditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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