Download or read book Islam Sharia and Alternative Dispute Resolution written by Mohamed M. Keshavjee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meanings and contexts of Shari'a are the subject of both curiosity and misunderstanding by non-Muslims. Shari'a is sometimes crudely characterised by outsiders as a punitive legal system operating broadly outside, and separate from, national laws and customs. This groundbreaking book shows that Shari'a and its 'fiqh' (laws set forward by various Islamic legal schools) comprise a far more nuanced matrix of interpretations than is often assumed to be the case. Far from being monolithic or impervious to change from without, Muslim legal tradition has - since its beginnings in the early Islamic period - placed an emphasis on equity and non-adversarial conflict-resolution. Mohamed Keshavjee examines both Sunni and Shi'a applications of Islamic law, demonstrating how political, cultural and other factors have influenced the practice of fiqh and Shari'a in the West. Exploring in particular the modern development of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), the author shows that this process can revitalise some of the essential principles that underlie Muslim teachings and jurispudence, delivering not only formal remedies but also perceived justice, even to non-Muslims.

Download or read book Dispute Resolution in Islamic Finance written by Adnan Trakic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispute Resolution in Islamic Finance addresses how best to handle disputes within Islamic finance. It examines how they can be resolved in a less confrontational manner and ensure such disagreements are settled in a just and fair way. There has been little focus on how disputes within Islamic finance are resolved. As a result, many of these disputes are resolved through litigation, notwithstanding that the various jurisdictions and court systems are generally poorly equipped to handle such matters. This book addresses this gap in our knowledge by focusing on five centres of Islamic finance: the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Malaysia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Before exploring these countries in detail, the book considers the issues of the choice of law within Islamic finance as well the prevailing forms of dispute resolution in this form of finance. The book brings together a group of leading scholars who are all specialists on the subject in the countries they examine. It is a key resource for students and researchers of Islamic finance, and aimed at lawyers, finance professionals, industry practitioners, consultancy firms, and academics.

Download or read book Modern Perspectives on Islamic Law written by E. Ann Black and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book presents an invaluable contribution to the debate on the compatibility of Islam and modernity. It is full of arguments and examples showing how Islam can be understood in line with modern life, human rights, democracy, the rule of law, civil society and pluralism. The three authors come from different countries, represent different gender perspectives and have a Shia, a Sunni and a non-Muslim background respectively which makes the book a unique source of information and inspiration.' Irmgard Marboe, University of Vienna, Austria This well-informed book explains, reflects on and analyses Islamic law, not only in the classical legal tradition of Sharia, but also its modern, contemporary context. The book explores the role of Islamic law in secular Western nations and reflects on the legal system of Islam in its classical context as applied in its traditional homeland of the Middle East and also in South East Asia. Written by three leading scholars from three different backgrounds: a Muslim in the Sunni tradition, a Muslim in the Shia tradition, and a non-Muslim woman the book is not only unique, but also enriched by differing insights into Islamic law. Sir William Blair provides the foreword to a book which acknowledges that Islam continues to play a vital role not just in the Middle East but across the wider world, the discussion on which the authors embark is a crucial one. The book starts with an analysis of the nature of Islamic law, its concepts, meaning and sources, as well as its development in different stages of Islamic history. This is followed by accounts of how Islamic law is being practised today. Key modern institutions are discussed, such as the parliament, judiciary, dar al-ifta, political parties, and other important organizations. It continues by analysing some key concepts in our modern times: nation-state, citizenship, ummah, dhimmah (recognition of the status of certain non-Muslims in Islamic states), and the rule of law. The book investigates how in recent times, more and more fatwas are issued collectively rather than emanating from an individual scholar. The authors then evaluate how Islamic law deals with family matters, economics, crime, property and alternative dispute resolution. Lastly, the book revisits certain contemporary issues of debate in Islamic law such as the burqa, halal food, riba (interest) and apostasy. Modern Perspectives on Islamic Law will become a standard scholarly text on Islamic law. Its wide-ranging coverage will appeal to researchers and students of Islamic law, or Islamic studies in general. Legal practitioners will also be interested in the comparative aspects of Islamic law presented in this book.

Download or read book A Geo Legal Approach to the English Sharia Courts written by Anna Marotta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on the Islamic ADR institutions in England through the lens of Comparative Law and Geopolitics.

Download or read book A Geo Legal Approach to the English Sharia Courts written by Anna Marotta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on the Islamic ADR institutions in England through the lens of Comparative Law and Geopolitics.

Download or read book Islamic Law and International Law written by Emilia Justyna Powell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are twenty-nine Islamic law states (ILS) in the world today, and their Muslim population is over 900 million. Muslims in these countries--and, to some extent, all Muslims--are ethically, morally, doctrinally, or politically committed to the Islamic legal tradition, a unique logic and culture of justice based on nonconfrontational dispute resolution. In Islamic Law and International Law, Emilia Justyna Powell examines the differences and similarities between the Islamic legal tradition and international law, focusing in particular on the issue of conflict management and resolution. In many Islamic Law States, Islamic law displaces secular law in state governance and shapes these countries' international dealings. Powell considers why some of Islamic Law States accept international courts while others avoid them, stressing throughout that we cannot make blanket claims about such states. Each relationship is context-specific, hinging on the nature of the domestic legal system. Moreover, not all of these states are Islamic to the same degree or in the same way. Secular law and religious law fuse in different ways in different domestic legal systems. Often, the Islamic legal tradition points in one direction, while the Western-based, secularized international law points in another. However, Powell argues that Islamic legal tradition contains elements that are compatible with modern international law. She marshals original data on the legal systems structures in thirty Islamic Law States over the entire course of the post-World War Two era, and she draws from in-depth interviews with Islamic law scholars and leading practitioners of international law, including judges of the International Court of Justice. Rich in empirical evidence, this book will reshape how we think about the relationship between ILS and the international system.

Download or read book On Sharia in American Family Law written by Joshua Carback and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of group identity are ubiquitous in today's globalized world. The determination as to what values should define national identity, in turn, has important legal implications. The law should conserve values which comprise the social fabric, the natural constitution binding society together. The influence of extra-civilizational values and legal norms can be problematic in that context. Family law is a critical component of public order; disruption of a society's legal norms regulating the family is disruptive to the social fabric as a whole. Islamic legal norms can cause such disruption. The application of Islamic law does occur in the United States and occasionally manifests in family law specifically. This Article argues that Islamic law is largely incompatible with the fundamental principles of the Western legal tradition. Consequently, state legislatures and the judiciary should engage in what the author terms emulsion: the assimilation of migrants from societies outside the compass of Western civilization into the social fabric of the United States through legal measures tailored to accomplish that task. Courts should not recognize agreements or decisions made by Islamic alternative dispute resolution bodies made pursuant to Islamic law when adjudicating family disputes when those agreements or decisions fail secular standards. The incorporation of Islamic law into adjudication of family law disputes or review of decisions of Islamic alternative dispute resolution bodies would otherwise require judges to engage in theological inquiries outside of their competence in violation of the Religious Question Doctrine and the Establishment Clause. This Article calls for scholars to empirically examine the efficacy and equity of Islamic alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. It also recommends that additional scholarship examine the intersection between religious law, the courts, public policy, and the First Amendment.

Download or read book Sharia Tribunals Rabbinical Courts and Christian Panels written by Michael J. Broyde and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the rise of private arbitration in religious and other values-oriented communities, and it argues that secular societies should use secular legal frameworks to facilitate, enforce, and also regulate religious arbitration. It covers the history of religious arbitration; the kinds of faith-based dispute resolution models currently in use; how the law should perceive them; and what the role of religious arbitration in the United States and the western world should be. Part One examines why religious individuals and communities are increasingly turning to private faith-based dispute resolution to arbitrate their litigious disputes. It focuses on why religious communities feel disenfranchised from secular law, and particularly secular family law. Part Two looks at why American law is so comfortable with faith-based arbitration, given its penchant for enabling parties to order their relationships and resolve their disputes using norms and values that are often different from and sometimes opposed to secular standards. Part Three weighs the proper procedural, jurisdictional, and contractual limits of arbitration generally, and of religious arbitration particularly. It identifies and explains the reasonable limitations on religious arbitration. Part Four examines whether secular societies should facilitate effective, legally enforceable religious dispute resolution, and it argues that religious arbitration is not only good for the religious community itself, but that having many different avenues for faith-based arbitration which are properly limited is good for any vibrant pluralistic democracy inhabited by diverse faith groups.

Download or read book Understanding Sharia written by Raficq S. Abdulla and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharia has been a source of misunderstanding and misconception in both the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds. Understanding Sharia: Islamic Law in a Globalised World sets out to explore the reality of sharia, contextualising its development in the early centuries of Islam and showing how it evolved in line with historical and social circumstances. The authors, Raficq S. Abdulla and Mohamed M. Keshavjee, both British-trained lawyers, argue that sharia and the positive law flowing from it, known as fiqh, have never been an exclusive legal system or a fixed set of beliefs.

Download or read book Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes written by Samia Bano and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family law-such as arbitration, mediation, and conciliation-have created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throughout the world. There are now multiple ways of obtaining restitution through nontraditional alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms. For some, the emergence of ADRs can be understood as part of a broader liberal response to the challenges presented by the settlement of migrant communities in Western liberal democracies. Questions of rights are framed as "multicultural challenges" that give rise to important issues relating to power, authority, agency, and choice. Underpinning these debates are questions about the doctrine and practice of secularism, citizenship, belonging, and identity. Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes offers insights into how women's autonomy and personal decision-making capabilities are expressed via multiple formal and nonformal dispute-resolution mechanisms, and as part of their social and legal lived realities. It analyzes the specific ways in which both mediation and religious arbitration take shape in contemporary and comparative family law across jurisdictions. Demarcating lines between contemporary family mediation and new forms of religious arbitration, Bano illuminates the complexities of these processes across multiple national contexts.

Download or read book Debating Sharia written by Anna Korteweg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice announced it would begin offering Sharia-based services in Ontario, a subsequent provincial government review gave qualified support for religious arbitration. However, the ensuing debate inflamed the passions of a wide range of Muslim and non-Muslim groups, garnered worldwide attention, and led to a ban on religiously based family law arbitration in the province. Debating Sharia sheds light on how Ontario's Sharia debate of 2003-2006 exemplified contemporary concerns regarding religiosity in the public sphere and the place of Islam in Western nation states. Focusing on the legal ramifications of Sharia law in the context of rapidly changing Western liberal democracies, Debating Sharia approaches the issue from a variety of methodological perspectives, including policy and media analysis, fieldwork, feminist examinations of the portrayals of Muslim women, and theoretical examinations of religion, Sharia, and the law. This volume is an important read for those who grapple with ethnic and religio-cultural diversity while remaining committed to religious freedom and women's equality.

Download or read book Sharia Transformations written by Michael G. Peletz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few symbols in today’s world are as laden and fraught as sharia—an Arabic-origin term referring to the straight path, the path God revealed for humans, the norms and rules guiding Muslims on that path, and Islamic law and normativity as enshrined in sacred texts or formal statute. Yet the ways in which Muslim men and women experience the myriad dimensions of sharia often go unnoticed and unpublicized. So too do recent historical changes in sharia judiciaries and contemporary strategies on the part of political and religious elites, social engineers, and brand stewards to shape, solidify, and rebrand these institutions. Sharia Transformations is an ethnographic, historical, and theoretical study of the practice and lived entailments of sharia in Malaysia, arguably the most economically successful Muslim-majority nation in the world. The book focuses on the routine everyday practices of Malaysia’s sharia courts and the changes that have occurred in the court discourses and practices in recent decades. Michael G. Peletz approaches Malaysia’s sharia judiciary as a global assemblage and addresses important issues in the humanistic and social-scientific literature concerning how Malays and other Muslims engage ethical norms and deal with law, social justice, and governance in a rapidly globalizing world.

Download or read book Sharia and Constraint written by Christopher Cutting and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 2003 Syed Mumtaz Ali, leader of the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice located in Toronto Ontario announced in a media interview that his institute was in a new position to offer faith based arbitration to Muslims in Ontario in family law matters such as divorce, custody, and wills. This announcement precipitated a media storm. Participants in the public debate on faith based arbitration, or what came to be called the "sharia debate", worried that vulnerable people such as Muslim women and children might not receive fair treatment by faith based arbitrators. Although, these were legitimate concerns, I argue that much of the public discourse was deeply Islamophobic, and factually wrong in several respects. I argue that the media played an important role in advancing what I call imperial secularism and what others have called colonial feminism. Furthermore, no one knew what was taking place on the ground in Muslim communities with regard to alternative dispute resolution of family law matters generally. My fieldwork research revealed two unanticipated results. First, the vast majority of Muslim adherents seeking out alternative dispute resolution services related to family law matters were Muslim women rather than Muslim men. Second, the vast majority of Muslims seeking out these services were looking for a religious divorce in addition to a civil divorce so that they could remarry within their religious community. They were not on the whole seeking guidance on matters, for example, regarding custody, division of family assets, or support payment amounts upon divorce. The Dalton McGuinty government ultimately decided to ban faith based arbitration, making its announcement on September 11, 2005. However, I argue that due to de facto legal pluralism there are several other avenues for making religious legal traditions legally enforceable, for example, through faith based mediation, if the disputants agree to enter the results of a mediation into a separation agreement. I argue that this apparent oversight of the resulting policy is in part due to a public discourse that treated vulnerable people generally and Muslim women in particular paternalistically as ???children??? in need of rescue. I argue however that given the realities of Canada???s Family Law Act, it is crucial to develop policy that recognizes vulnerable people as agents, facilitating agency rather than essentially denying it. Furthermore, my fieldwork suggests that many of the practices of Muslim faith mediation are much more reasonable than several participants in the public debate assumed, questioning the Islamophobic tone of the public debate. However, there are still risks in faith based mediation and the like, and for that reason I make several policy recommendations designed to facilitate the agency of vulnerable people to protect themselves. Notably, Orthodox Jewish communities have been using faith based arbitration for several years. Therefore, I conducted research to see how the McGuinty government???s decision affected them. The unanticipated result was that very little had changed in practice for Jewish communities precisely because of de facto legal pluralism. I argue that the Islamophobic discourse of the public ???sharia debate??? and the limited policy formed following the debate are the result in part of imperial secularism and colonial feminism. Therefore, I argue that anti-imperial secularism and post-secular feminism should be developed within Canada???s larger multicultural framework in order to promote improved public discourse and public policy that treats vulnerable people generally and Muslim women specifically as agents rather than as ???children??? in need of paternalistic rescue.

Download or read book Islam Sharia and Alternative Dispute Resolution written by Mohamed M. Keshavjee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meanings and contexts of Shari'a are the subject of both curiosity and misunderstanding by non-Muslims. Shari'a is sometimes crudely characterised by outsiders as a punitive legal system operating broadly outside, and separate from, national laws and customs. This groundbreaking book shows that Shari'a and its 'fiqh' (laws set forward by various Islamic legal schools) comprise a far more nuanced matrix of interpretations than is often assumed to be the case. Far from being monolithic or impervious to change from without, Muslim legal tradition has - since its beginnings in the early Islamic period - placed an emphasis on equity and non-adversarial conflict-resolution. Mohamed Keshavjee examines both Sunni and Shi'a applications of Islamic law, demonstrating how political, cultural and other factors have influenced the practice of fiqh and Shari'a in the West. Exploring in particular the modern development of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), the author shows that this process can revitalise some of the essential principles that underlie Muslim teachings and jurispudence, delivering not only formal remedies but also perceived justice, even to non-Muslims.

Download or read book Islamic Divorce in North America written by Julie Macfarlane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy-makers and the public are increasingly attentive to the role of shari'a in the everyday lives of Western Muslims, with negative associations and public fears growing among their non-Muslim neighbors in the United States and Canada. The most common way North American Muslims relate to shari'a is in their observance of Muslim marriage and divorce rituals; recourse to traditional Islamic marriage and, to a lesser extent, divorce is widespread. Julie Macfarlane has conducted hundreds of interviews with Muslim couples, as well as with religious and community leaders and family conflict professionals. Her book describes how Muslim marriage and divorce processes are used in North America, and what they mean to those who embrace them as a part of their religious and cultural identity. The picture that emerges is of an idiosyncratic private ordering system that reflects a wide range of attitudes towards contemporary family values and changes in gender roles. Some women describe pervasive assumptions about restrictions on their role in the family system, as well as pressure to accept these values and to stay married. Others of both genders describe the gradual modernization of Islamic family traditions - and the subsequent emergence of a Western shari'a--but a continuing commitment to the rituals of Muslim marriage and divorce in their private lives. Readers will be challenged to consider how the secular state should respond in order to find a balance between state commitment to universal norms and formal equality, and the protection of religious freedom expressed in private religious and cultural practices.

Download or read book Mediation and Islam written by Pashtana Abedi and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediation in Islam is referred to as sulh, meaning "negotiated settlement", which closely resembles what is known as mediation or faith-based mediations in the West. Sulh grants parties the flexibility to apply their own laws, cultures, and guidelines to their particular circumstances. Mediation & Islam reintroduces sulh processes to communities and tailors them to the community's current needs. Materializing creative solutions and focusing on reconciliation revives Prophet Muhammad's (S) tradition, which emphasizes sulh among the community at large by allowing people to discuss their differences with the help of a third-party neutral. The purpose of this book is to marry concepts within sulh and mediation practices in the West to provide people with a practical and fruitful approach to conflict resolution. In addition, it equips practitioners with tools to assist them in mediating cases that have at least one Muslim party. Mediation & Islam outlines times in which mediation would be used, explains the benefits of using mediation over other legal avenues such as litigation and arbitration, and provides a step-by-step process on how to conduct a mediation from start to finish.

Download or read book Shari a Inshallah written by Mark Fathi Massoud and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shari'a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari'a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.