Description
A dynamic account of the sharia in Lebanon as both state law and as personal ethics.
About the Author
Morgan Clarke is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Keble College. He previously held a Simon Fellowship at the University of Manchester and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon since 2003, and is the author of Islam and New Kinship: Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon (2009) and many articles on the anthropology of Islam and the Middle East.
Reviews
'Morgan Clarke's Islam and Law in Lebanon is a superb study of the multiple registers of Islamic law both within and beyond the purview of the Lebanese state and its legal system. Through a close and incisive examination of discourses, individuals and institutions which participate in the discussion about the nature of Islamic law in contemporary Lebanon, Clarke draws attention to important, often overlooked dimensions of the dynamics between states, their laws and Sharia.' Guy Burak, New York University
'The anthropology of Islamic ethics and of Islamic law are today both recognised as important subfields in anthropology, but both have developed in only intermittent dialogue with each other. Morgan Clarke's richly researched and elegantly written book brings the two fields together masterfully, while also exploring the no less important issue of the relationship between state and non-state understandings and practices of Islamic sharia. The result is an important work that should be read by all anthropologists of Islam, as well as the general reader interested in how Islamic law and ethics are made relevant and meaningful in modern social settings.' Robert W. Hefner, Boston University
'Morgan Clarke's ethnographically rich account of sharia 'within and outside' the state in Lebanon offers a crucial step forward in articulating current concerns with institutions, ethics, and practices, particularly in the post-Ottoman context, and does so in a particularly clear and generous fashion.' John R. Bowen, author of On British Islam and A New Anthropology of Islam
Book Information
ISBN 9781316637142
Author Morgan Clarke
Format Paperback
Page Count 351
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 540g
Dimensions(mm) 155mm * 230mm * 20mm