How muftis think: Islamic legal thought and Muslim women in Western Europe
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Women, Fatwas, Actors -- Continuity and Change: Fatwas and Fatwa-Giving on Women’s Issues in Historical Perspective -- The Muftis and the Fatwa Institutions -- The Fatwas -- Agony Uncle: The Fatwas of...
| Published in: | Studies in Islamic law and society |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
2018
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Studies in Islamic law and society (44)
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| Series/Journal: | Studies in Islamic law and society
44 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Western world
/ Muslim woman
/ Fatwa
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| Further subjects: | B
Fatwas (Europe, Western)
B Islamic Law Interpretation and construction B Muftis (Muslim officials) (Europe, Western) B Women (Islamic law) (Europe, Western) B Women (Islamic law) Europe, Western B Thesis B Fatwas Europe, Western B Muftis (Muslim officials) Europe, Western |
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| Summary: | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Women, Fatwas, Actors -- Continuity and Change: Fatwas and Fatwa-Giving on Women’s Issues in Historical Perspective -- The Muftis and the Fatwa Institutions -- The Fatwas -- Agony Uncle: The Fatwas of Syed Darsh -- Women’s Issues and Collective Fatwas: The Case of the ECFR -- Fatwa, Legitimacy, and Authority -- The Muftis’ Reasoning in Local Context -- Fatwas in Context: Muftis and Local Challenges -- Maqasid al-shariʿa and Modern Common Morality -- Concluding Reflections -- Back Matter -- References. In How Muftis Think Lena Larsen explores fatwas that respond to questions asked by Muslim women in Western Europe in recent decades. The questions show women to be torn between two opposing notions of morality and norms: one stressing women’s duties and obedience, and one stressing women’s rights and equality before the law. Focusing on muftis who see “the time and place” as important considerations in fatwa-giving, and seek to develop a local European Islamic jurisprudence on these increasingly controversial issues, Larsen examines how they deal with women’s dilemmas. Careful not to suggest easy answers or happy endings, her discussion still holds out hope that European societies and Muslim minorities can recognize shared moral concerns |
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| ISBN: | 9004367853 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004367852 |