Decolonial Translation: Destabilizing Coloniality in Secular Translations of Islamic Law = trǧma lāʾnhāʾ ālklūnīālīa: zʿzʿza ālklūnīālīa fī āltrǧmāt ālʿlmānīa llfqh ālāʾslāmī
Abstract Contemporary Islamic legal studies—both inside and outside the Muslim world—commonly relies upon a secular distortion of law. In this article, I use translation as a metonym for secular transformations and, accordingly, I will demonstrate how secular ideology translates the Islamic traditio...
| Subtitles: | trǧma lāʾnhāʾ ālklūnīālīa: zʿzʿza ālklūnīālīa fī āltrǧmāt ālʿlmānīa llfqh ālāʾslāmī |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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| In: |
Journal of Islamic ethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 5, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 250-277 |
| Further subjects: | B
decolonial theory
B Critical Theory B Comparative Law B Secular Law B Islamic Law |
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| Summary: | Abstract Contemporary Islamic legal studies—both inside and outside the Muslim world—commonly relies upon a secular distortion of law. In this article, I use translation as a metonym for secular transformations and, accordingly, I will demonstrate how secular ideology translates the Islamic tradition. A secular translation converts the Islamic tradition into “religion” (the non-secular) and Islamic law into “sharia”—a term intended to represent the English mispronunciation of the Arabic word شريعة (sharīʿah). I explore the differences between historical Islamic terms and secular terms in order to demonstrate that coloniality generates religion and religious law; in turn, these two notions convert شريعة (sharīʿah) into “sharia” in both Arabic and non-Arabic languages. Consequently, the notion of “sharia” is part of a colonial system of meaning. |
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| ISSN: | 2468-5542 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Islamic ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/24685542-12340054 |