Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics, and Family Law Arbitration

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