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Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understanding of Indian secularism. Lemons analyzes four marital dispute adjudication forums run by Muslim jurists or lay Muslims to show that religious law does not muddle the categories of religion and law but generates them. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted in these four institutions-NGO-run women's arbitration centers (mahila panchayats); sharia courts (dar ul-qazas); a Muslim jurist's authoritative legal opinions (fatwas); and the practice of what a Muslim legal expert (mufti) calls "spiritual healing"-Divorcing Traditions shows how secularism is an ongoing project that seeks to establish and maintain an appropriate relationship between religion and politics. A secular state is always secularizing. And yet, as Lemons demonstrates, the state is not the only arbiter of the relationship between religion and law: religious legal forums help to constitute the categories of private and public, religious and secular upon which secularism relies. In the end, because Muslim legal expertise and practice are central to the Indian legal system and because Muslim divorce's contested legal status marks a crisis of the secular distinction between religion and law, Muslim divorce, argues Lemons, is a key site for understanding Indian secularism.
Legal polycentricity --- Secularism --- Islam and state --- Divorce --- Divorce (Islamic law) --- Mosque and state --- State and Islam --- State, The --- Ummah (Islam) --- Bijuralism --- Legal pluralism --- Pluralism, Legal --- Polycentric law --- Polycentricity, Legal --- Law --- Conflict of laws --- Law and legislation --- 297 <54> --- 297 <54> Islamisme. Mahométisme--India. Pakistan --- 297 <54> Islam. Mohammedanisme--India. Pakistan --- Islamisme. Mahométisme--India. Pakistan --- Islam. Mohammedanisme--India. Pakistan
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"Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics from India to Arabia. At the center is the influential Sufi scholar Shaykh ʻAli Muttaqi and his little-known network of disciples. Scott Kugle relates how ʻAli Muttaqi, an expert in Arabic, scriptural hermeneutics, and hadith, left his native South Asia and traversed treacherous seas to make the Hajj to Mecca. Settling in Mecca, he continued to influence his homeland from overseas. Kugle draws on his original translations of Arabic and Persian manuscripts, never before available in English, to trace ʻAli Muttaqi's devotional writings, revealing how the Hajj transformed his spiritual life and political loyalties. The story expands across three generations of peripatetic Sufi masters in the Mutaqqi lineage as they travel for purposes of pilgrimage, scholarship, and sometimes simply for survival along Indian Ocean maritime routes linking global Muslim communities. Exploring the political intrigue, scholarly debates, and diverse social milieus that shaped the colorful personalities of his Sufi subjects, Kugle argues for the importance of Indian Sufi thought in the study of hadith and of ethics in Islam"--
Muslim scholars --- Sufis --- Sufism --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Islam --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Learning and scholarship --- Muslim learning and scholarship --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Islamic scholars --- Scholars, Muslim --- Scholars --- History --- Intellectual life --- Muttaqī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, --- ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abd Allāh al-Muttaqī al-Hindī, --- ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, --- Hindī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, --- Hindī, Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn Qāḍī Khān al-Qādirī al-Shādhilī, --- Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn Qāḍī Khān al-Qādirī al-Shādhilī al-Hindī, --- Junbūrī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, --- Muttaqī al-Hindī, --- Muttaqī, Alī Ḥusāmuʼd-dīn, --- علي بن حسام المتقي الهندي --- متقي، علي بن عبد الملك --- متقي، علي بن عبد الملك، --- 297 <54> --- 297*2 --- 297 <54> Islamisme. Mahométisme--India. Pakistan --- 297 <54> Islam. Mohammedanisme--India. Pakistan --- Islamisme. Mahométisme--India. Pakistan --- Islam. Mohammedanisme--India. Pakistan --- 297*2 Soefisme --- Soefisme --- Muttaqī, Alī ibn Ḥusāmuddīn, --- علي بن حسام المتقي الهندي، --- متقى، علي ابن حسام الدين،
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