The modern state of Lebanon, created after the fall of the Ottoman
Empire, is home to eighteen officially recognised different
religious communities (or sects). Crucially, political office and
representation came to be formally shared along confessional lines,
and the privileges of power are distributed accordingly. One such
key prerogative is exclusivity when it comes to personal status
laws: the family legal affairs of each community. In this book,
Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic account of how
the sharia is invoked both with Lebanon's state legal system, as
Muslim family law, and outside it, as a framework for an Islamic
life and society. By bringing together an in-depth analysis of
Lebanon's state-sponsored sharia courts with a look at the wider
world of religious instruction, this book highlights the breadth of
the sharia and the complexity of the contexts within which it is
embedded.
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