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Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, by SABA MAHMOOD
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Law and Moral Regulation in Modern Egypt: Ḥisba from Tradition to Modernity
TL;DR: The authors examines the historical roots of juridical moral regulation in modern Egypt, assessing the relationship between modern law and shariʿa through the lens of the influence of the Islamic practice of ḥisba on courts and legislators.
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Secularizing Islam: The Colonial Encounter and the Making of a British Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria, 1903–58
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that neither the reification nor the erosion accounts illuminates the relationship between the colonial state and Islamic law, and they present a narrative of reform that foregrounds the following questions: Who had (and exercised) the power to decide what Islamic law was? How was the exercise of this power justified? How did the authority of Islamic law fit with the broader colonial project of governing religious difference? What were the consequences of these processes for Islamic law and institutions and colonial subjects?
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Toward a Global Covenant of Peaceable Neighborhood: Introducing the Philosophy of Covenantal Pluralism
TL;DR: The global challenge of living together peacefully and constructively in the context of deep religious/worldview differences will not be met through bumper-sticker slogans about "tolerance" as mentioned in this paper.
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Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937
TL;DR: Pande as mentioned in this paper provides a dual biography of India's path-breaking Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and of 'age' itself as a key category of identity for upholding the rule of law, and for governing intimate life in late colonial India.
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Imperial inventories, “illegal mosques” and institutionalized Islam: Coloniality and the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina
TL;DR: The authors explores the ways in which imperial inventories of colonial instalments of the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have characterized the Islamic community of BiH.
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Whose misafirs? negotiating difference along the turkish–syrian border
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the figure of the misafir (guest) as it personifies the combined domains of everyday and institutional hospitality in Hatay, a contested border province annexed to Turkey from French Mandate Syria in 1939, and home today to over 400,000 displaced Syrians.