Uses of the Past: Sharīʿa and Gender in Legal Theory and Practice in Palestine and Israel

Schneider, Irene; Edres, Nijmi (eds.) (2018). Uses of the Past: Sharīʿa and Gender in Legal Theory and Practice in Palestine and Israel. Studies on Islamic Cultural and Intellectual History: Vol. 2. Harrassowitz Verlag 10.2307/j.ctvcm4fxc

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The cases of Israel and Palestine offer a particularly interesting vantage point for analyzing ‘uses of the past’. Both states’ legal trajectories follow from developments in the late Ottoman and British Mandate (1922–1948) periods, and their legal frameworks are characterized by an interesting overlapping of legislations and legal traditions. At the same time, the different political and social contextual frameworks in which Palestinian Muslims operate (living in Palestine, i.e. West Bank and Gaza Strip, or inside Israel) have a profound impact on legal debates and the practical solutions devised by judges and practitioners. This poses unusual challenges to Palestinian Muslim legal theorists and practitioners about how to face modernity and social change, leading to an interesting debate among scholars of legal pluralism, legal anthropology and Muslim law. The book Uses of the Past focuses on the relationship between Gender and Sharīʿa, aiming at analyzing how the past of Muslim tradition is invoked when dealing with gender issues and family law and how it is used to support legal change and reform in contemporary Muslim discourse.

Item Type:	Book (Edited Volume)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institut für Studien zum Nahen Osten und zu muslimischen Gesellschaften
UniBE Contributor:	Edres, Nijmi
Subjects:	200 Religion > 290 Other religions 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law 900 History 900 History > 950 History of Asia
Series:	Studies on Islamic Cultural and Intellectual History
Publisher:	Harrassowitz Verlag
Projects:	[UNSPECIFIED] HERA project Understanding Shari'a USPPIP
Language:	English
Submitter:	Nijmi Edres
Date Deposited:	16 Mar 2023 13:37
Last Modified:	16 Mar 2023 23:27
Publisher DOI:	10.2307/j.ctvcm4fxc
Related URLs:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcm4fxc
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/180074