02824nam 2200361 n 450 991068798110332120230701231535.0(CKB)5670000000374862(NjHacI)995670000000374862(EXLCZ)99567000000037486220230701d2018 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConstituting Religion Islam, liberal rights, and the Malaysian state /Tamir MoustafaCambridge, United Kingdom :Cambridge University Press,2018.1 online resource (x, 187 pages)1-108-43917-9 Introduction : Constituting Religion -- The Constitutive Power of Law and Courts -- The Secular Roots of Islamic Law in Malaysia -- Islam and Liberal Rights in the Federal Constitution -- The Judicialization of Religion -- Constructing the Political Spectacle : Liberal Rights versus Religion in the Court of Public Opinion -- The Rights-versus-Rites Binary in Popular Legal Consciousness -- "Islam is the Religion of the Federation" -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Religion of the State, Source Law, and Repugnancy Clause Provisions among Muslim-Majority Countries."Most Muslim-majority countries have legal systems that enshrine both Islam and liberal rights. While not necessarily at odds, these dual commitments nonetheless provide legal and symbolic resources for activists to advance contending visions for their states and societies. Using the case study of Malaysia, Constituting Religion examines how these legal arrangements enable litigation and feed the construction of a "rights-versus-rites binary" in law, politics, and the popular imagination. By drawing on extensive primary source material and tracing controversial cases from the court of law to the court of public opinion, this study theorizes the "judicialization of religion" and the radiating effects of courts on popular legal and religious consciousness. The book documents how legal institutions catalyze ideological struggles, which stand to redefine the nation and its politics. Probing the links between legal pluralism, social movements, secularism, and political Islamism, Constituting Religion sheds new light on the confluence of law, religion, politics, and society. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core at www.cambridge.org/core"-- Provided by publisher.Constituting Religion Constitutional lawMalaysiaConstitutional law342.595Moustafa Tamir1200968NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910687981103321Constituting Religion3394423UNINA