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TY - JOUR
T1 - English Responses to Shariah Tribunals
T2 - A Critical Assessment of Populist Attitudes towards Islamic Law
AU - Al-Astewani, Amin
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Policy Studies on 18/01/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/19460171.2018.1564061
PY - 2019/1/18
Y1 - 2019/1/18
N2 - Whilst the literature on populism spans almost every conceivable discipline, the study of its relationship with religion remains exceptionally sparse. This paper seeks to fill an important gap in the literature and significantly enrich the study of populism by directly addressing the way in which religion impacts upon and is connected with populist movements. It does so by addressing a particularly illuminating case-study of populist attitudes toward Islamic law in Europe, namely the English public’s response toward the formation of Shariah tribunals. As this paper shall show, the populist depiction of Shariah tribunals forced the UK government to dramatically alter its stance toward such tribunals, by framing the formation of Shariah tribunals as a malign and subversive attempt by a religious fundamentalist lobby at annexing the jurisdiction of the state legal system and imposing religious law by stealth.
AB - Whilst the literature on populism spans almost every conceivable discipline, the study of its relationship with religion remains exceptionally sparse. This paper seeks to fill an important gap in the literature and significantly enrich the study of populism by directly addressing the way in which religion impacts upon and is connected with populist movements. It does so by addressing a particularly illuminating case-study of populist attitudes toward Islamic law in Europe, namely the English public’s response toward the formation of Shariah tribunals. As this paper shall show, the populist depiction of Shariah tribunals forced the UK government to dramatically alter its stance toward such tribunals, by framing the formation of Shariah tribunals as a malign and subversive attempt by a religious fundamentalist lobby at annexing the jurisdiction of the state legal system and imposing religious law by stealth.
KW - Islamic law
KW - Shariah Tribunals
KW - populism
KW - British Muslims
U2 - 10.1080/19460171.2018.1564061
DO - 10.1080/19460171.2018.1564061
M3 - Journal article
JO - Critical Policy Studies
JF - Critical Policy Studies
SN - 1946-0171
ER -