Abstract
... one has the impression that the legalistic tradition within Islam is so strong that Muslims are much less awe-struck by the British legal system, which they see as less moral and no more rational than their own, whereas the Sikhs lack their own law tradition to rival either English law or the Sharia. Pakistani Muslims are therefore inclined to treat the registration of marriages as a tiresome formality, to be carried out at their convenience. (Gell, 1994: 384-5)
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