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- Berghahn Books
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- © 2022 Berghahn Books
- ISSN
- 1746-0719
- eISSN
- 1746-0727
- DOI
- 10.3167/ame.2020.150106
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Abstract
This article examines Syrians’ narratives about the network of Sharia Committees (Hay'āt al-Sharia) that emerged as the most pervasive and popular legal project during the ongoing civil war. Many Syrians formerly excluded from political power, especially working-class Sunnis, envision the Sharia Committees as a revolutionary space for realising self-determination, where sharia is articulated as a democratic legal process embedded in its ostensibly inherent pluralism, flexibility, anti-authoritarianism and conception of justice as reconciliation and public good. By reviving a historically recurrent vision of sharia as radical democratic practice, Syrians attempt to extricate sharia from its entanglements with efforts to govern. The Sharia Committees thus represent a creative effort to reclaim democracy from state control while challenging rigid, rule-oriented understandings of sharia.
Journal
Anthropology of the Middle East – Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 1, 2020
Keywords: democracy; Hay'āt al-Sharia; Islam; law; sharia; Syria