Traduction décoloniale : contre la colonialité dans la conversion séculière du droit islamique en “charia”

Abstract

Contemporary Islamic legal studies – both inside and outside the Muslim world – rely upon a secular conversion of law. In this article, I offer a rigorous explanation of Islamic law and a critical interpretation of « sharia ». My objective is to demonstrate that « sharia » means « religious law » and that this meaning is a secular translation of Islamic law. This particular translation reflects a broader secular conversion of the Islamic tradition into a « religion » consisting of « sharia » and « norms ». Decolonial comparisons reveal that secular law is a narrower type of law than Islamic law. A decolonial translation of the Islamic tradition replaces the notion of « sharia and norms » with « Islamic law ».

Keywords

• Islamic law
• sharia
• secular law
• doctrine
• decolonial
• translation