Maurits Berger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4015582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurits Berger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurits |
| FAMILY NAME | Berger |
| SIGNATURE | BERGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6075-0984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Muslim(s), Future(s), Europe
This introduction to the special ‘Muslim Futures’ in the Journal of Muslims in Europe expounds the new development of Muslims imagining their future in Europe. This special has selected a number of themes: AI and transhumanism, children’s literature, environment and sustainability, pedagogy and education, charity, urban spaces, sufism, and art, beauty, and ethics. These contributions are not meant to provide a conclusive insight on Muslim futures…
The Year 2004
This article aims to take a new approach to the study of Islam in Europe today by adopting a historiographical method with particular emphasis on the concept of temporality. The case-study will be The Netherlands, where it will be shown that a convergence of events in the year 2004 has contributed to the shaping of the national experience of ‘Islam’. It will be argued that these events, and the manner in which they took place, have created a nati…
Shifting Paradigms in Islamic Higher Education in Europe
Islamic higher education finds itself at the cross-roads of a variety of developments: it oscillates between the ‘teaching into’ approach of Theology and the ‘teaching about’ approach of Religious Studies, between the security-driven need for a ‘European Islam’ and a European Muslim-driven need for a high-quality education in ‘Islam in Europe’, between traditional one-way knowledge dissemination and innovative two-way knowledge sharing, and betwe…
Sharīʿa Scripts
Sharīʿa Scripts: A Historical Anthropology. By Brinkley Messick. New York: Volumbia University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 519. $70, £58.95
Understanding Sharia in the West
The main challenge of understanding Sharia in the West is its undefined nature. This contradicts the ease with which the term is used in public and political discourse, but also in the legal domain, which prides itself on its precision in terminology. This article addresses the question: What is the Sharia that Muslims in the West practice? To this end, a model is presented that provides tools to describe the complex interaction between Sharia, a…
A Brief History of Islam in Europe. Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence
The leading questions in discussing the role of the Islam in Europe are: how and in what ways did Europeans and Muslims interact, and what is the role of religion therein? And for those Europeans who had never met a Muslim: what was their image of Islam, and how did they study the Muslim? This book shows that in the course of thirteen centuries the Muslim as well as Islam have undergone many metamorphoses. The Muslim has entered the European stag…
A Brief History of Islam in Europe
This book presents an overall presentation and discussion of developments ever since Islam appeared on the European stage thirteen centuries ago. The events and stories presented increase the understanding of present debates on, and notions of, Islam and Muslims in Europe. This book shows that in the course of thirteen centuries the Muslim as well as Islam have undergone many metamorphoses. The Muslim has entered the European stage as a conqueror…
The Third Wave
To understand the concerns and issues related to Muslims and Islam in Europe, this article makes use of a framework that qualifies ‘Islam’ as two manifestations of ‘physical’ and ‘virtual’ Islam and ‘Europe’ as two discourses defined as the political-legal and cultural-religious discourse. The resulting matrix of these four dimensions will be applied to several of the main issues of the interaction between Islam and Europe: the numerical presence…
Silence. How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide
Tackling an issue so sensitive and complex as blasphemy or apostasy is quite a challenge. Paul Marshall and Nina Shea make a laudable effort by providing an elaborate survey of cases by country, but, for several reasons, they fail to map out the density of the topic. First, they do not discuss apostasy and blasphemy as such, as the title suggests, but instead discuss its accusations and threats as practiced in Muslim majority countries and by Mus…
Islamic Views On International Law
La pertinence du droit international islamique est trs limite dans le monde musulman contemporain.Pour tous les sujets du droit international, les pays musulmans adhrent aux notions et aux pratiques contemporaines, y compris celles des traits et reconnaissent lautorit des corps intergouvernementaux et supranationaux.Ceci sapplique mme aux pays avec un caractre islamique distinctif.Cependant, avec le renforcement du fondamentalisme islamique depui…
Secularizing Interreligious Law in Egypt
Among the fifteen recognized Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities in contemporary Egypt, nine religious family laws are applicable. There is no civil or secular marriage: the creed of the individual Egyptian determines which family law is applicable. The question as to which law applies when the spouses are of different religions is answered by the so-called interreligious rules that determine which law prevails. According to Egyptian legal d…
Apostasy and Public Policy in Contemporary Egypt
Apostasy, the abandonment of Islam, can be subdivided into the act of apostasy, and its legal consequences. In Egyptian case law of the past fifty years, only the latter plays a role. The act of apostasy hardly needs to be scrutinized by the courts since it is almost never related to religious conviction, but to legal issues like marriage or inheritance. This was different, however, in the 1996 ruling of the Court of Cassation against the Egyptia…
Conflicts Law and Public Policy in Egyptian Family Law
Journal Article Conflicts Law and Public Policy in Egyptian Family Law: Islamic Law Through the Backdoor Get access Maurits S. Berger Maurits S. Berger 1Maurits S. Berger (L.L.M. and M.A. in Arabic Studies, both University of Utrecht) is writing his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 50, Issue 3, Summer 2002, Pages 555–594, h…
Public Policy and Islamic Law
Egyptian law has maintained the Islamic system of interreligious law in which the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities are governed by their own courts and their own laws. In the course of the twentieth century, however, these separate courts were abolished and the application of non-Muslim laws was restricted to matters of marriage and divorce, and then only if the non-Muslim spouses share the rite and sect of the same religion. In all other…
Legal Pluralism in the Arab World
Legal pluralism denotes both the multiple social fields which produce partilly interacting norms and the state's recognition of the many sources of law which constitute its legislation. It advocates a break from traditional legal theory in favour of describing the law from a more sociological and anthropological perspective. The theory of legal pluralism proves a useful tool, offering a challenging avenue for the examination of socio-legal activi…
Public Policy and Islamic Law
Egyptian law has maintained the Islamic system of interreligious law in which the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities are governed by their own courts and their own laws. In the course of the twentieth century, however, these separate courts were abolished and the application of non-Muslim laws was restricted to matters of marriage and divorce, and then only if the non-Muslim spouses share the rite and sect of the same religion. In all other…
Secularizing Interreligious Law in Egypt
Among the fifteen recognized Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities in contemporary Egypt, nine religious family laws are applicable. There is no civil or secular marriage: the creed of the individual Egyptian determines which family law is applicable. The question as to which law applies when the spouses are of different religions is answered by the so-called interreligious rules that determine which law prevails. According to Egyptian legal d…
Conflicts Law and Public Policy in Egyptian Family Law
Journal Article Conflicts Law and Public Policy in Egyptian Family Law: Islamic Law Through the Backdoor Get access Maurits S. Berger Maurits S. Berger 1Maurits S. Berger (L.L.M. and M.A. in Arabic Studies, both University of Utrecht) is writing his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 50, Issue 3, Summer 2002, Pages 555–594, h…
Legal Pluralism in the Arab World
Legal pluralism denotes both the multiple social fields which produce partilly interacting norms and the state's recognition of the many sources of law which constitute its legislation. It advocates a break from traditional legal theory in favour of describing the law from a more sociological and anthropological perspective. The theory of legal pluralism proves a useful tool, offering a challenging avenue for the examination of socio-legal activi…
Public Policy and Islamic Law
Egyptian law has maintained the Islamic system of interreligious law in which the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities are governed by their own courts and their own laws. In the course of the twentieth century, however, these separate courts were abolished and the application of non-Muslim laws was restricted to matters of marriage and divorce, and then only if the non-Muslim spouses share the rite and sect of the same religion. In all other…
Conflicts Law and Public Policy in Egyptian Family Law
Journal Article Conflicts Law and Public Policy in Egyptian Family Law: Islamic Law Through the Backdoor Get access Maurits S. Berger Maurits S. Berger 1Maurits S. Berger (L.L.M. and M.A. in Arabic Studies, both University of Utrecht) is writing his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 50, Issue 3, Summer 2002, Pages 555–594, h…
Apostasy and Public Policy in Contemporary Egypt
Apostasy, the abandonment of Islam, can be subdivided into the act of apostasy, and its legal consequences. In Egyptian case law of the past fifty years, only the latter plays a role. The act of apostasy hardly needs to be scrutinized by the courts since it is almost never related to religious conviction, but to legal issues like marriage or inheritance. This was different, however, in the 1996 ruling of the Court of Cassation against the Egyptia…
Secularizing Interreligious Law in Egypt
Among the fifteen recognized Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities in contemporary Egypt, nine religious family laws are applicable. There is no civil or secular marriage: the creed of the individual Egyptian determines which family law is applicable. The question as to which law applies when the spouses are of different religions is answered by the so-called interreligious rules that determine which law prevails. According to Egyptian legal d…
Islamic Views On International Law
La pertinence du droit international islamique est trs limite dans le monde musulman contemporain.Pour tous les sujets du droit international, les pays musulmans adhrent aux notions et aux pratiques contemporaines, y compris celles des traits et reconnaissent lautorit des corps intergouvernementaux et supranationaux.Ceci sapplique mme aux pays avec un caractre islamique distinctif.Cependant, avec le renforcement du fondamentalisme islamique depui…
The Third Wave
To understand the concerns and issues related to Muslims and Islam in Europe, this article makes use of a framework that qualifies ‘Islam’ as two manifestations of ‘physical’ and ‘virtual’ Islam and ‘Europe’ as two discourses defined as the political-legal and cultural-religious discourse. The resulting matrix of these four dimensions will be applied to several of the main issues of the interaction between Islam and Europe: the numerical presence…
Silence. How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide
Tackling an issue so sensitive and complex as blasphemy or apostasy is quite a challenge. Paul Marshall and Nina Shea make a laudable effort by providing an elaborate survey of cases by country, but, for several reasons, they fail to map out the density of the topic. First, they do not discuss apostasy and blasphemy as such, as the title suggests, but instead discuss its accusations and threats as practiced in Muslim majority countries and by Mus…
A Brief History of Islam in Europe. Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence
The leading questions in discussing the role of the Islam in Europe are: how and in what ways did Europeans and Muslims interact, and what is the role of religion therein? And for those Europeans who had never met a Muslim: what was their image of Islam, and how did they study the Muslim? This book shows that in the course of thirteen centuries the Muslim as well as Islam have undergone many metamorphoses. The Muslim has entered the European stag…
A Brief History of Islam in Europe
This book presents an overall presentation and discussion of developments ever since Islam appeared on the European stage thirteen centuries ago. The events and stories presented increase the understanding of present debates on, and notions of, Islam and Muslims in Europe. This book shows that in the course of thirteen centuries the Muslim as well as Islam have undergone many metamorphoses. The Muslim has entered the European stage as a conqueror…
Understanding Sharia in the West
The main challenge of understanding Sharia in the West is its undefined nature. This contradicts the ease with which the term is used in public and political discourse, but also in the legal domain, which prides itself on its precision in terminology. This article addresses the question: What is the Sharia that Muslims in the West practice? To this end, a model is presented that provides tools to describe the complex interaction between Sharia, a…
Shifting Paradigms in Islamic Higher Education in Europe
Islamic higher education finds itself at the cross-roads of a variety of developments: it oscillates between the ‘teaching into’ approach of Theology and the ‘teaching about’ approach of Religious Studies, between the security-driven need for a ‘European Islam’ and a European Muslim-driven need for a high-quality education in ‘Islam in Europe’, between traditional one-way knowledge dissemination and innovative two-way knowledge sharing, and betwe…
Sharīʿa Scripts
Sharīʿa Scripts: A Historical Anthropology. By Brinkley Messick. New York: Volumbia University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 519. $70, £58.95
The Year 2004
This article aims to take a new approach to the study of Islam in Europe today by adopting a historiographical method with particular emphasis on the concept of temporality. The case-study will be The Netherlands, where it will be shown that a convergence of events in the year 2004 has contributed to the shaping of the national experience of ‘Islam’. It will be argued that these events, and the manner in which they took place, have created a nati…
Muslim(s), Future(s), Europe
This introduction to the special ‘Muslim Futures’ in the Journal of Muslims in Europe expounds the new development of Muslims imagining their future in Europe. This special has selected a number of themes: AI and transhumanism, children’s literature, environment and sustainability, pedagogy and education, charity, urban spaces, sufism, and art, beauty, and ethics. These contributions are not meant to provide a conclusive insight on Muslim futures…
Political science (14 works) · Islam (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Islamic Studies and History (9 works) · Theology (8 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)