Kathleen M. Moore
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195387810
- eISBN:
- 9780199777242
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387810.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter provides a deconstruction of a British call for the formulation of an Islamic diasporic jurisprudence, in which juridical activity is proposed as a mirror. It begins with a review of ...
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This chapter provides a deconstruction of a British call for the formulation of an Islamic diasporic jurisprudence, in which juridical activity is proposed as a mirror. It begins with a review of theoretical works on diaspora and the legal sociology of jurisprudence. It explains and discusses the author's view of what a “diasporic jurisprudence” is, and uses this concept to examine the text of a speech given by a Muslim intellectual-activist before an assembly of Muslim British college students in London in December 1995. It is argued that in the vein of cultural studies, “culture” is neither an autonomous nor an externally determined field, but a site of social struggle and differences. Thus, when we bring together the analytical concepts “diaspora” and “jurisprudence,” we are juxtaposing two words that reciprocally constitute a particular social field in which symbols and scruples can be appropriated and contested. Although a bit of an oil-and-water combination, these two concepts (diaspora and jurisprudence) hold as if suspended in a colloid, sustained by opportunity spaces allowing them to assert claims for rights and forms of justice.Less
This chapter provides a deconstruction of a British call for the formulation of an Islamic diasporic jurisprudence, in which juridical activity is proposed as a mirror. It begins with a review of theoretical works on diaspora and the legal sociology of jurisprudence. It explains and discusses the author's view of what a “diasporic jurisprudence” is, and uses this concept to examine the text of a speech given by a Muslim intellectual-activist before an assembly of Muslim British college students in London in December 1995. It is argued that in the vein of cultural studies, “culture” is neither an autonomous nor an externally determined field, but a site of social struggle and differences. Thus, when we bring together the analytical concepts “diaspora” and “jurisprudence,” we are juxtaposing two words that reciprocally constitute a particular social field in which symbols and scruples can be appropriated and contested. Although a bit of an oil-and-water combination, these two concepts (diaspora and jurisprudence) hold as if suspended in a colloid, sustained by opportunity spaces allowing them to assert claims for rights and forms of justice.
