The Islamic Juridical Vacuum: An Ethnographic Study of How Parallel Legal Institutions Emerged in Denmark (Muslim Minorities, 45)
Petersen, Jesper
ISBN 10: 9004700250 ISBN 13: 9789004700253
Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2025
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Based on seven years of ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark this study investigates how Islamic legal processes work before and after the emergence of Islamic divorce councils around 2021. The author begins by laying out a new methodology for the study of sharia, which leads him to several surprising conclusions. The study for example demonstrates that Islamic legal practices constitute an integrated part of how the Danish welfare state operates, that female Muslim leaders play important roles in Islamic divorce processes, and that the demand for Islamic divorce councils is generated as a byproduct of Muslim women’s agency.
About the Author: Jesper Petersen, PhD (2020), is associate professor of history of religion specialized in Islamic studies and Starting Grant research leader on the Non-Muslim Islam project at Copenhagen University, funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark.
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Title: The Islamic Juridical Vacuum: An ...
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Fine