04864cam a2200613Mi 4500 ocn818819058 OCoLC 20200709055718.0 m d cr unu 121124s2010 txu o 000 0 eng d EBLCP eng EBLCP OCLCO OCLCQ N$T 9781593326418 (electronic bk.) 1593326416 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)818819058 520531 (N$T) KBP69.U6 H36 2010 REL 037020 bisacsh 340.5/9 340.59 N$TA Hanshaw, Mark E. Muslim and American? [electronic resource] : Straddling Islamic Law and U.S. Justice. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2010. 1 online resource (309 p.) Law and Society ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; The Employment of Islamic Law; American Muslims and Islamic Law; Inside the American Courtroom; The Self-Image of American Muslims; The View from Abroad; 1. Orientalisms in Practice; Images: Traditional and Modern; The Birth of "Orientalism"; Orientalism in the 21 st Century; Muslim Voices; Legal Orientalisms; 2. The Qadi and Images of Injustice; The Qadi of Western Scholarship; The Qadi in the Supreme Court; The Adoption of Terminello; Systems in Opposition; Authority Without Limitation; The Qadi in History; The Unbridled Qadi; Justice for the Qadi. 3. Terrorism and JihadThe Battle Over Jihad; Defining Jihad; Jihad in the Qur'an; Defensive Jihad; Political Jihad; Greater Jihad; Jihad in the Courtroom; Jihad in Other Cases; An Emphasis Upon Terror; Courts, Jihad and Terrorism; 4. Child Custody and American Muslims; Stakes in the Battle; Definitional Considerations; Legal Principles Affecting Child Custody Matters; Child Custody under Shari'a; A Court Divided; From Comity to Community; Of Comity; 5. Marriage, Divorce and the American Muslim; The Muslim Marital Contract; The Dissolution of a Marriage; Muslim Marriages in U.S. Courts. From Beginning to EndDower Agreements; Questions and Interpretations; 6. Abandoning Tradition?; The Relationship between Islam andIslamic Law; Separating Law and Practice; A Modernist Call; Founders of a Movement; The Outcry of Traditionalists; Ultimate Questions; 7. A Parallel System of Justice?; Canada's Experiment with Arbitration; Arbitration, U.S. Secular Courts and theMuslim Community; From Canada to the U.S.: Assessing theFuture of Muslim Arbitration; 8. Other Paths; Germany: Limited Enforcement of MuslimLegal Norms; England: Seeking Influence; Concluding Observations. 9. Seeking SolutionsThe Way Forward; A. Excerpts from the Ontario Arbitration ActOf 1991 235; B. Executive Summary the Report "DisputeResolution in Family Law: ProtectingChoice, Promoting Inclusion," December2004, also known as the "Boyd Report"; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. Hanshaw explores the often competing demands that confront American Muslims from Islamic religious law and secular law. The conflict extends into many aspects of daily life, ranging from issues concerning divorce and child custody to the interpretation of contracts. The receptivity of U.S. courts to claims rooted in Islamic legal principles has been uneven, leaving Muslims in a state of uncertainty. As well, U.S. courts have often struggled to interpret Islamic law provisions. At the heart of Hanshaw?s legal analysis lies the very personal question of whether weaknesses in U.S. judicial proces. Description based on print version record. Islamic law United States. Jihad. Justice, Administration of United States. Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) Muslims Legal status, laws, etc. United States. Terrorism United States Prevention. Islamic law United States. Muslims Legal status, laws, etc. United States. Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) Justice, Administration of United States. Jihad. Terrorism United States Prevention. RELIGION / Islam / Law bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Hanshaw, Mark E. Muslim and American? : Straddling Islamic Law and U.S. Justice El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, c2010 9781593323943 Recht und Gesellschaft. Ebook Library http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1057812 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=520531 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL1057812 EBSCOhost EBSC 520531 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 52379 52379