SHARIAH WITHOUT COURTS: A STUDY OF ISLAMIC JUDICIAL PRACTICES IN ENGLAND

没有法庭的伊斯兰教法：英国伊斯兰司法实践研究

• 批准号: 0961272
• 负责人: John Bowen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-15 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0961272&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHARIAH; WITHOUT; COURTS; STUDY; ISLAMIC

Dr. John R. Bowen (Washington University in St Louis) will undertake research on England's Shariah Councils. Across Europe and North America, some Muslims have proposed the creation of religious tribunals to mediate in family and other disputes. These proposals often meet with opposition from those concerned about lack of transparent procedures, possible patriarchal attitudes towards women and children, and the effects of introducing political Islam into Western law. But in England, Muslims already have created institutions for mediating disputes that are based on Islamic norms or sharî`a. The English case, with its advanced Islamic institutional development, thus provides an instructive case for both social scientific discussions and public policy debates.The researcher will conduct his investigations primarily at three English councils, two tribunals that offers mediation and one tribunal that offers binding arbitration. He will gather data from observations, interviews, and analyses of decisions, with a focus on how Islamic judges deliberate and reach decisions. Attention will be paid especially to determining the extent to which prior experience of these judges in their countries of origin shapes what they do in England, and to what extent judges craft their decisions around the English social and legal context.The research forms part of a larger scientific project comparing Islamic deliberative processes across three Western countries: the United States, France, and Great Britain. The research is important because it will add to social scientific knowledge of how Islamic, and, by extension, other religious quasi-legal institutions function in varying contexts. Findings will contribute needed information to public policy debates about the role of religious courts in Western secular societies. The results will be disseminated in planned public lectures and in publications.

Dr. John R.伯恩（华盛顿大学圣刘易斯）将对英国的伊斯兰教法委员会进行研究。在整个欧洲和北美，一些穆斯林提议建立宗教法庭来调解家庭和其他纠纷。这些建议经常遭到那些担心缺乏透明程序、可能对妇女和儿童采取重男轻女态度以及将政治伊斯兰引入西方法律的影响的人的反对。但在英国，穆斯林已经建立了基于伊斯兰规范或伊斯兰教法的调解争端的机构。英国的案例，其先进的伊斯兰制度的发展，因此，提供了一个指导性的案例，为社会科学的讨论和公共政策的辩论。研究人员将进行他的调查，主要是在三个英国议会，两个法庭，提供调解和一个法庭，提供有约束力的仲裁。他将从观察、访谈和对判决的分析中收集数据，重点关注伊斯兰法官如何审议和做出决定。将特别注意确定在何种程度上，这些法官在他们的原籍国的先前的经验塑造他们在英格兰做什么，以及在何种程度上法官工艺他们的决定周围的英语社会和法律的context.The研究的一部分，一个更大的科学项目比较伊斯兰审议过程在三个西方国家：美国，法国和英国。这项研究很重要，因为它将增加关于伊斯兰教以及其他宗教准法律机构在不同背景下如何运作的社会科学知识。调查结果将有助于所需的信息，在西方世俗社会的宗教法院的作用的公共政策辩论。研究结果将在计划的公开讲座和出版物中传播。