Divorcing Traditions

Lemons, Katherine

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“…24 Second, Katherine Lemons deploys the concept of "jurisdiction" to cast light on the ironies of secular legal governance in her analysis of fieldwork done among Indian 'ulama' working in communal "personal law" courts. 25 However, the salience of sovereignty as an analytic to study the question of the political in 'ulama' life-worlds is most rigorously argued in SherAli Tareen's Defending Muammad in Modernity (2020).…”

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Translating scholars: Theorizing modern South Asian ‘Ulama’ studies

Mian

2022

Religion Compass

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We are witnessing an exciting renaissance in scholarship on modern South Asian Muslim religious scholars (‘ulama’). This article examines how this new scholarship repositions earlier academic conversations in distinctive ways to make several signal moves: (a) centering the political (particularly the theme of sovereignty); (b) complexifying the study of religious authority by attention to textuality, embodiment, and internal criticism; and finally (c) taking the transnational turn and tracing ‘ulama’ communities in the South Asian diaspora. The article also considers the public scholarship of three academics who have begun asking the question: What are the ethics and politics of translating ‘ulama’ life‐worlds beyond the etic‐emic and secular‐religious frameworks?

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Translating scholars: Theorizing modern South Asian ‘Ulama’ studies

Mian

2022

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Mélange Familism and Family Law: The Law in Everyday Lives of Single Mothers/Women

Mehdi

2023

Understanding Gender and Diversity in Europe

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Neocolonial Digitality: Analyzing Digital Legal Databases Using Legal Pluralism

Hoque

2023

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A prevalent assumption is that digital legal databases generate an exhaustive and inclusive archive for academics and legal professionals to use for gathering information. Bridging theories and methods from digital media studies and legal anthropology, I challenge this assumption and demonstrate how digitizing law is a politicized process that is tied to legacies of colonialism and modern epistemic frameworks of law and justice. Employing the concept of legal pluralism, I conduct a comparative study of urban secular state courts and rural Islamic/customary non-state courts (shalish) in Bangladesh to show how the construction of digital legal databases distorts and erases alternate frameworks of law and women’s socio-legal experiences. I discuss two significant use of digital legal databases to highlight why it is important to study the gaps and prejudices: (1) they are central to generating new forms of archives—digital archives; (2) they provide the data sets to help train artificial intelligence and influence automated outputs. I develop the term “neocolonial digitality” to explain how power related to legacies of colonialism and other forms of discrimination are embedded in the digitizing process. This concept also holds space for the newer forms of hierarchies, exclusions, and power structures that digitality permits, focusing on the particular harms marginalized communities encounter in the Global South.

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Divorcing Traditions

Cited by 57 publications

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Translating scholars: Theorizing modern South Asian ‘Ulama’ studies

Translating scholars: Theorizing modern South Asian ‘Ulama’ studies

Mélange Familism and Family Law: The Law in Everyday Lives of Single Mothers/Women

Neocolonial Digitality: Analyzing Digital Legal Databases Using Legal Pluralism

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