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Amid the din of tabloid accusations that Britain now enforces, “shari’a law” has been lost the variety of ways in which British Muslim scholars have combined religious legitimacy, quasi-judicial procedures, and social outreach to create new kinds of Islamic institutions. I set out two such institutions here to give a sense of that variety. Together they illustrate the complex ways in which British Islamic institutions can and do articulate positions on registers of spirituality and legalism.
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Bowen, J.R. (2013). Sanctity and Shariah. In: von Benda-Beckmann, F., von Benda-Beckmann, K., Ramstedt, M., Turner, B. (eds) Religion in Disputes. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318343_8
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