Sharīʿa and the West, and Sharīʿa in the West

While in the previous chapters I focused on legal models as applied in Muslim countries, here I analyze the possible application of sharı̄ʿa in the Western world. In doing so, I focus on three main issues: the Internet as a borderless space in which a sharı̄ʿa-based normativity can freely circulate, thus, having an influence on Western societies as well, as in the case of the online fatāwā; the case of the United Kingdom, in which sharı̄ʿa may be granted application at certain circumstances via arbitration; the case of Greece, in which sharı̄ʿa is applied in three dedicated courts based on the provisions of the Treaty of Lausanne. In regard to these cases, I discuss the philosophical implications deriving from these ways of interaction between sharı̄ʿa and the Western world.