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Issaka-Toure, Fulera ; Alidou, Ousseina:
Introduction: Current Perspectives on Islamic Family Law in Africa.
In: Islamic Africa.
Bd. 11
(2020)
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- S. 153-162.
ISSN 2154-0993
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01101016
Abstract
This special issue of Islamic Africa brings together new critical perspectives on the status of Islamic Family Law, commonly referred to as sharīʿa, within four African countries – Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and Senegal – each reflecting distinctive gendered cultural, colonial and postcolonial realities. The introduction provides a general overview of the state of the art on Islamic family law in Africa and highlights the significant thematic focus of each contribution and the new areas for further inquiry that the volume opens. These topics and questions include among others: (a) the ways in which European colonialism and contemporary democratization processes have opened spaces for religious pluralism, thereby shaping the articulation of Muslim personal law within different African postcolonial state judicial systems; (b) how Islamic judicial practices, institutions, and authorities such as malamai and/or Kadhis engage themselves with the secular state and/or are constrained by both the state and by the legal pluralism encountered within both Muslim majority and minority African countries; (c) the gendered implications of the hierarchical relation between Kadhi Courts and a national High Court; (d) the benefits and/or shortcomings of harmonizing Islamic Family Law; (e) what is to be learnt from women choosing to settle marital disputes and divorce within and/or outside the “legal protective space” afforded by the state judicial system and its inclusion of Islamic Family Law; (f) the role of human agency in influencing the administration of Islamic family law and/or interpreting the law; how judicial systems that are shaped by European and Islamic patriarchal systems confronted by the resilience of indigenous matrilineal Customary Law within contemporary African societies; and (g) the compatibility between the various articulation of African Islamic family laws with universal human rights and individual freedom. Ultimately, this special issue of Islamic Africa offers an insightful reflection on how Islamic Family Law plays an important role in democratic constitution-making or testing processes.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Keywords: | Africa; Sharīʿa; Human agency; Patriarchy; Legal pluralism; Gendered citizenship |
| Fachklassifikationen: | Muslim family law |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaften Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaften > Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaft - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Seesemann Fakultäten Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 200 Religion > 290 Andere Religionen |
| Eingestellt am: | 08 Aug 2022 06:19 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 09 Aug 2022 07:09 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/71394 |