Description du projet
Explorer l’accès des femmes musulmanes à la justice en Europe
Le projet BILQIS, financé par l’UE, combinera des études socio-juridiques, de genre, féministes et islamiques pour étudier les droits des femmes musulmanes en Europe. BILQIS explorera les questions de genre en relation avec les lois islamiques sur la famille (LIF). À cette fin, les chercheurs mèneront une étude comparative de la manière dont les femmes musulmanes en Europe ont vécu l’autorité au fil du temps, du XIXe siècle à nos jours, dans les périphéries européennes des Balkans et dans les contextes nord-atlantiques. Ils s’interrogeront en outre sur la manière dont le développement genré des LIF dans chacun de ces contextes périphériques peut être mieux compris en termes de loi et d’autorité en étudiant les textes et les instances juridiques.
Objectif
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. The project will engage in a comparative study 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, and the territorial spaces that are currently governed by Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden. BILQIS will interrogate how the gendered development of IFL in each of these peripheral contexts can be better understood in terms agency and authority through studies of legal texts and authorities (e.g. qadis, sijills, muftis, fatwas, istintâk, national court judgements) and will produce new critical, contextual, conceptual, and constructive knowledge in this regard. As a result BILQIS will break significant epistemic, conceptual and methodological impasses around shari’a, conflict of laws, and cultural pluralism in Europe. 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 (e.g. 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).
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
H91 Galway
Irlande