Debating Sharia

Table of Contents Introduction: Situating the Debate Foreword: Situating the Debate within Others in European and American Contexts Introduction - Situating the Debate in Ontario Part I. Practicing Religious Divorce among North-American Muslims 1. Practicing an 'Islamic Imagination': Islamic Divorce in North America 2. Faith-Based Arbitration or Religious Divorce: What was the Issue?Part II. Regulating Faith-Based Arbitration 3. Multiculturalism Meets Privatisation: The Case of Faith-Based Arbitration 4. 'Sharia' Courts in Canada: A Delayed Opportunity for the Indigenization of Islamic Legal Rulings." Part III. Defining Islamic Law in the West 5. Asking Questions About Sharia: Lessons From Ontario. 6. Islamic Law and the Canadian Mosaic: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Multicultural Accommodation. Part IV. Negotiating the Politics of Sharia-Based Arbitration 7. 'The 'Good' Muslim/'Bad' Muslim Puzzle?: The Assertion of Muslim Women's Islamic Identity in the Sharia Debates. 8. 'The Muslims Have Ruined Our Party:' A Case Study of Ontario Media Portrayals of Supporters of Faith-Based Arbitration. Part V. Analyzing Discourses of Race, Gender, and Religion 9. 'Sharia in Canada?' Mapping Discourses of Race, Gender and Religious Difference. 10. Agency and Representations: Voices and Silences in the Ontario Sharia Debate Part VI. Managing Religion in the Canadian State 11. Managing the Mosaic: The Work of Form in 'Dispute Resolution in Family Law: Protecting Choice, Promoting Inclusion.' 12. Construing the Secular: Implications of the Ontario Sharia Debate Concluding Thoughts Conclusion: Debating Sharia in the West List of Contributors