Islam and English law : rights, responsibilities, and the place of Shari'a / edited by Robin Griffith-Jones.
"Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams triggered a storm of protest when he suggested that some accommodation between British law and Islam's shari'a law was 'inevitable'. His foundational lecture introduced a series of public discussions on Islam and English Law at...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Robin Griffith-Jones
- Introduction / Stephen Hockman
- Part I. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Shari'a Law: 1. The 'unavoidable' adoption of shari'a law?: the generation of a media storm / Robin Griffith-Jones; 2. Civil and religious law in England: a religious perspective / Rowan Williams
- Part II. The Archbishop's Proposal for 'Transformative Accommodation': Shariʻa and secular democracy: is Islamic law compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights?; 3. The Refah case at the European Court of Human Rights / Nicolas Bratza; 4. The compatibility of an Islamic/shari'a law system or shari'a rules with the European Convention on Human Rights / Dominic McGoldrick; 5. An analysis of the relationship between shari'a and secular democracy and the compatibility of Islamic law with the European Convention on Human Rights / Mashood A. Baderin; 6. Dignity and religion / Christopher McCrudden; Legal Pluralism: Should English Law Give Greater Recognition to Islamic Law?: 7. Family law: current conflicts and their resolution / Elizabeth Butler-Sloss and Mark Hill; 8. Islamic finance, alternative dispute resolution and family law: developments towards legal pluralism? / Ian Edge; 9. Judging Muslims / Prakash Shah; 10. From Muslim migrants to Muslim citizens / Shaheen Sardar-Ali; 11. Ontario's 'shari'a court': law and politics intertwined / Marion Boyd; Accommodation or Conflict: Trajectories in the United Kingdom: 12. Religious rights and the public interest / Robin Griffith-Jones
- Part III. Responsibilities and Rights: Freedom of Speech, Incitement to Religious Hatred: Beyond the Divide?: 13. Where to draw the line, and how to draw it / Sydney Kentridge, A note: the Satanic Verses and the Danish cartoons / Robin Griffith-Jones; 14. Censor or censure: maintaining civility / Tariq Modood; 15. In praise of 'fuzzy law' / Albie Sachs; Religion, the state and meaning of 'jihad': 16. Towards an Islamic society, not an Islamic state / Abdullahi An-Na'im; 17. Following shari'a in the West / Tariq Ramadan; 18. Violence, personal commitment and democracy / Khaled Abou El Fadl
- Part IV. Prospect: Equality before God and before the Law: 19. Equal before God / David F. Ford; 20. Equal before the law / Nicholas Phillips.