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This introduction situates the book in the current field of research and aims to find some generalizations out of the diversity of legal pluralist practices from around the world.
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But even in the U.K. legal pluralism is demonstrated by the presence of a separate legal tradition in Scotland.
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Turner, B.S., Richardson, J.T., Possamai, A. (2023). Introduction: Legal Pluralism and Shari’a. In: Possamai, A., Richardson, J.T., Turner, B.S. (eds) The Sociology of Shari’a. Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27188-5_1
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