Contents

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Introduction 1

Norbert Oberauer

Muslim Legal Practice in the United Kingdom: the Muslim Arbitration

Tribunal 12

Yvonne Prief

Unregistered Muslim Marriages in the United Kingdom 43

Vishal Vora

Muslims of Greece: a Legal Paradox and a Political Failure 63 Konstantinos Tsitselikis

Islamic Law as Indigenous Law: SharTa Courts in Israel from a Postcolonial Perspective 84

Ido Shahar

Nation Building, Islamic Law and Unofficial Legal Pluralism: the Cases of Turkey and Pakistan 109

Ihsan Yilmaz

Constitutional Recognition of Islamic Family Law and SharTa Courts in Ethiopia: Governmental Strategies to Co-regulate the Plural Family Law Arena 139

Katrin Seidel

Legal Pluralism in the Southern West Bank: the Impact of Honour as a Factor on Developments towards an Increased Consideration of Rule-of-Law Principles in Clan-Based Justice 172

Ulrike Qubaja

Legal Pluralism in Indonesia: the Case of Interfaith Marriages Involving Muslims 199

Judith Koschorke

Contextualising Malaysia’s Islamic Law: a Nuanced Perspective 230 Karen Meerschaut and Werner de Saeger

Index 255