Rethinking Halal : Critical Perspective on Halal Markets and Certification.

This chapter invites to rethink certain aspects of halal, and in particular the issue of the halal market and halal certification in Muslim-minority contexts. Rather than limiting itself to elucidating the doctrinal traditions relating to halal/haram, or on the contrary, focusing only on the external economic, financial, political or demographic factors that explain the changes taking place, this chapter shows the need to underline the points of balance between the aspects of religious doctrine on the one hand and the economic or political contextual aspects on the other hand. The extension of the field of halal not only raises the challenge of taking seriously the interaction between religious doctrine and economics, but also inevitably constitutes an ethical turning point. Many cases and contexts show not only how different approaches and various actors are articulated but also how religious interpretation can seem to be abused, sometimes by reinterpretations favorable to the dominant economic structure, sometimes by a vicious circle of scientific techniques.

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UCLouvainSSH/RSCS - Institut de recherche Religions, spiritualités, cultures, sociétés

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Yakin, A., Christians, L.-L., & Dupret, B. (2021). Rethinking Halal : Critical Perspective on Halal Markets and Certification. In Ayang Utriza Yakin and Louis-Leon Christians (eds) (ed.), Rethinking Halal. Genealogy, Current trends, and New Interpretations (1st ed., p. p. 1-22). BRILL. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004459236