In 2013, the Indian Muslim Women’s Movement (BMMA) established India’s first women’s Shariʿa court with the objective of improving Muslim women’s lives by reclaiming Islamic tradition for the purpose of emancipation. In an attempt to reform the Muslim Personal Law, BMMA has trained women to become Shari’a law judges and to work toward reshaping legal and cultural norms within the community. Through an ethnography of BMMA women’s Shariʿa courts, this article examines the ways Muslim women activists simultaneously seek to carve out space for the creation of gender-just laws within the Islamic framework and challenge the notion of Islam as an impediment to the realization of women’s rights. It further discusses the way these women’s Shariʿa courts create new modes of governmentality beyond the fracture between the religious and the secular, thus offering insights into the interplay of secular ideals of gender justice and Islam.

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恢复宗教和法律权威：印度妇女伊斯兰教法院的民族志

2013 年，印度穆斯林妇女运动 (BMMA) 建立了印度第一个妇女伊斯兰教法法庭，旨在通过恢复伊斯兰传统以实现解放，从而改善穆斯林妇女的生活。为了改革穆斯林属人法，BMMA 培训女性成为伊斯兰教法法官，并努力重塑社区内的法律和文化规范。通过 BMMA 妇女伊斯兰教法法庭的民族志，本文研究了穆斯林妇女活动家如何同时寻求在伊斯兰框架内为制定性别公正的法律开辟空间，并挑战伊斯兰教是实现妇女权利的障碍的概念. 它进一步讨论了这些女性的伊斯兰教法法庭如何在宗教和世俗之间的断裂之外创造新的治理模式，