Author : Mark Fathi Massoud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1108832784
Shari'a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari'a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.
Author : Mark Fathi Massoud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 110896706X
Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different story: for nearly 150 years, the Somali people have embraced shari'a, commonly translated as Islamic law, in the struggle for national identity and human rights. Lawyers, community leaders, and activists throughout the Horn of Africa have invoked God to oppose colonialism, resist dictators, expel warlords, and to fight for gender equality - all critical steps on the path to the rule of law. Shari'a, Inshallah traces the most dramatic moments of legal change, political collapse, and reconstruction in Somalia and Somaliland. Massoud upends the conventional account of secular legal progress and demonstrates instead how faith in a higher power guides people toward the rule of law.
Author : Mark Fathi Massoud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107026075
This book uncovers how colonial administrators, postcolonial governments and international aid agencies have promoted stability and their own visions of the rule of law in Sudan.
Author : Cheryl Benard
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0833036203
In the face of Islam's own internal struggles, it is not easy to see who we should support and how. This report provides detailed descriptions of subgroups, their stands on various issues, and what those stands may mean for the West. Since the outcomes can matter greatly to international community, that community might wish to influence them by providing support to appropriate actors. The author recommends a mixed approach of providing specific types of support to those who can influence the outcomes in desirable ways.
Author : Grégoire Mallard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108489699
Examines gift exchanges as a foundational notion both in anthropology and in debates about international economic governance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Tamir Moustafa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108334075
Most Muslim-majority countries have legal systems that enshrine both Islam and liberal rights. While not necessarily at odds, these dual commitments nonetheless provide legal and symbolic resources for activists to advance contending visions for their states and societies. Using the case study of Malaysia, Constituting Religion examines how these legal arrangements enable litigation and feed the construction of a 'rights-versus-rites binary' in law, politics, and the popular imagination. By drawing on extensive primary source material and tracing controversial cases from the court of law to the court of public opinion, this study theorizes the 'judicialization of religion' and the radiating effects of courts on popular legal and religious consciousness. The book documents how legal institutions catalyze ideological struggles, which stand to redefine the nation and its politics. Probing the links between legal pluralism, social movements, secularism, and political Islamism, Constituting Religion sheds new light on the confluence of law, religion, politics, and society. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Egor Lazarev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1009245953
This book explores how politicians and individuals use state and non-state legal systems to achieve political goals in Chechnya.
Author : Elizabeth Jane Macpherson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1108473067
A detailed study of the engagement of state law with indigenous rights to water in comparative legal and policy contexts.
Author : Pablo Ruiz-Tagle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108835317
The first comprehensive study of Chilean constitutional history in the English language.
Author : Irene van Oorschot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108849091
In the field of socio-legal studies or law and society scholarship, it is rare to find empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated understandings of actual legal practice. This book, in contrast, connects the conceptual and the empirical, the abstract and the concrete, and in doing so shows the law to be an irreducibly social, material and temporal practice. Drawing on cutting-edge work in the social study of knowledge, it grapples with conceptual and methodological questions central to the field: how and where judgment empirically takes place; how and where facts are made; and how researchers might study these local and concrete ways of judging and knowing. Drawing on an ethnographic study of how narratives and documents, particularly case files, operate within legal practices, this book's unique and innovative approach consists of rearticulating the traditional boundaries separating judgment from knowledge, urging us to rethink the way truths are made within law.
