Morgan ClarkeIslam and Law in Lebanon
Sharia Within and Without the State
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.
Introduction
Part I. Contextualising Sharia Discourse in Lebanon: 1. Court, community and state - a legal genealogy
2. The consequences for civility
3. Becoming a shaykh
4. Lessons in the mosque
Part II. Sharia within the State: 5. Introducing the sharia courts
6. Marriage before God and the state
7. Bringing a case
8. Rulings and reconciliation
9. The judge as tragic hero
10. The wider world of the sharia
11. Reform and rebellion
Part III. Sharia outside the State: 12. Becoming an ayatollah
13. Making law from the bottom up
14. The limits of authority
Conclusion.
