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Muslim Mandarins in Chinese courts: dispute resolution, Islamic law, and the secular state in northwest China

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Many sociolegal studies have investigated the relationship between state law and informal law, examining alternative dispute resolution and popular justice as intersections between such types of law. However, such questions have received little attention in East Asian authoritarian states. I use the case of dispute resolution among Chinese Muslim minorities (the Hui) to reexamine the relationship between state law and Islamic law. Based on nineteen months of fieldwork in Northwest China, I ar...

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10.1111/lsi.12137

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-0422-3338
Publisher:
Wiley
Journal:
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Volume:
40
Issue:
4
Pages:
1001–1030
Publication date:
2015-01-01
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ISSN:
0897-6546
Language:
English
Pubs id:
pubs:577415
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uuid:0a12a2c6-48cf-4868-b8e4-3f808ddbc914
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pubs:577415
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577415
Deposit date:
2015-12-21

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