Islam and Law in Lebanon: Sharia within and without the State

Description

The modern state of Lebanon, created after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, is home to eighteen officially recognised different religious communities (or sects). Crucially, political office and representation came to be formally shared along confessional lines, and the privileges of power are distributed accordingly. One such key prerogative is exclusivity when it comes to personal status laws: the family legal affairs of each community. In this book, Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic account of how the sharia is invoked both with Lebanon's state legal system, as Muslim family law, and outside it, as a framework for an Islamic life and society. By bringing together an in-depth analysis of Lebanon's state-sponsored sharia courts with a look at the wider world of religious instruction, this book highlights the breadth of the sharia and the complexity of the contexts within which it is embedded. 01.0_pp_i_ii_Islam_and_Law_in_Lebanon 02.0_pp_iii_iii_Islam_and_Law_in_Lebanon 03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 04.0_pp_v_vi_Dedication 05.0_pp_vii_viii_Contents 06.0_pp_ix_ix_Tables 07.0_pp_x_xiii_Acknowledgements 08.0_pp_xiv_xiv_Note_on_Transliteration 09.0_pp_1_28_Introduction 10.0_pp_29_104_Contextualising_Sharia_Discourse_in_Lebanon 10.1_pp_31_54_Court_Community_and_State 10.2_pp_55_70_The_Consequences_for_Civility 10.3_pp_71_86_Becoming_a_Shaykh 10.4_pp_87_104_Lessons_in_the_Mosque 11.0_pp_105_234_Sharia_within_the_State 11.1_pp_107_125_Introducing_the_Sharia_Courts 11.2_pp_126_142_Marriage_before_God_and_the_State 11.3_pp_143_164_Bringing_a_Case 11.4_pp_165_189_Rulings_and_Reconciliation 11.5_pp_190_206_The_Judge_as_Tragic_Hero 11.6_pp_207_218_The_Wider_World_of_the_Sharia 11.7_pp_219_234_Reform_and_Rebellion 12.0_pp_235_304_Sharia_outside_the_State 12.1_pp_237_262_Becoming_an_Ayatollah 12.2_pp_263_281_Making_Law_from_the_Bottom_Up 12.3_pp_282_304_The_Limits_of_Authority 13.0_pp_305_311_Conclusion 14.0_pp_312_331_Bibliography 15.0_pp_332_338_Index