Global South Asia

Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India

Jeffrey A. Redding, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9780295747095
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia de la India y el sur de Asia

Whether from the perspective of Islamic law's advocates, secularism's partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for "sharia bans" in the courts, in western Europe legal limitations have been imposed on mosques and the wearing of headscarves, and in the Arab Middle East conflicts between secularist old guards and Islamist revolutionaries persist—suggesting that previously unsteady coexistences are transforming into outright hostilities. Jeffrey Redding's exploration of India's non-state system of Muslim dispute resolution—known as the dar-ul-qaza system and commonly referred to as "Muslim courts" or "shariat courts"—challenges conventional narratives about the inevitable opposition between Islamic law and secular forms of governance, demonstrating that Indian secular law and governance cannot work without the significant assistance of non-state Islamic legal actors.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Translation and Transliteration
• Introduction: Secular Hate, Love, and Need of Islamic Law
• 1. Muslim and Mundane: Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Dar ul Qazas
• 2. Secularism and “Shariʿa Courts”: A Constitutional Controversy
• 3. Secular Emotion and the Rule of Law: The Case of Ayesha
• 4. Secular Need and Divorce: India and the Geopolity
• 5. Illegitimacy and Indigeneity: Secular Courts and Muslim Dar ul Qazas
• Conclusion: Cause, Affect, and Analysis of the Feeling State
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Series List