SubsidieMeestersBuilding Conceptual and Methodological Expertise for the Study of Gender, Agency and Authority in Islam
BILQIS aims to enhance Muslim women's access to justice in Europe through a comparative study of Islamic family laws and gender dynamics across various historical and cultural contexts.
Projectdetails
Introduction
BILQIS emerges from a critical concern around Muslim women’s access to justice in Europe. BILQIS will be driven by methodological advances in Islamic feminism that the PI has been to the fore in delivering and will be primarily distinguished by its systematic and rigorous inquiries into questions of gender in relation to Islamic family laws (IFL) and IFL-related socio-religious and socio-legal power structures.
Project Scope
The project will engage in a comparative study of how Muslim women in Europe have navigated agency and authority over time from the long 19th century to the present day across diverse European peripheries, specifically:
- The Ottoman Balkans
- The post-Ottoman Balkans
- The territorial spaces currently governed by:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Greece
- Ireland
- Norway
- Sweden
Research Focus
BILQIS will interrogate how the gendered development of IFL in each of these peripheral contexts can be better understood in terms of agency and authority. This will be achieved through studies of legal texts and authorities, including:
- Qadis
- Sijills
- Muftis
- Fatwas
- Istintâk
- National court judgments
The project aims to produce new critical, contextual, conceptual, and constructive knowledge in this regard.
Impact
As a result, BILQIS will break significant epistemic, conceptual, and methodological impasses around shari’a, conflict of laws, and cultural pluralism in Europe.
Future Directions
Finally, BILQIS will aim to use the sum of this new knowledge to construct a new methodological framework to transform the study of gender gaps and power imbalances related to agency and authority. This new methodology will direct the future of critical work on gender gaps across multiple disciplines, including:
- Islamic Studies
- Socio-legal Studies
- Women’s and Gender Studies
- European Studies
- Near and Middle Eastern Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Political Philosophy
- Government and Policy Studies
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 1.994.249 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 1.994.249 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-9-2023 |
| Einddatum | 31-8-2028 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2023 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- UNIVERSITY OF GALWAYpenvoerder
- THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
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