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Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges offers comparative historical, anthropological and legal perspectives on the ways in which French and British colonial administrations interacted with the diversity of Islamic legal schools, scholars, and practices in Africa. The authors examine how the colonial impress marks Islamic legal practices in Africa and its impact on the post-colonial and contemporary periods. Several chapters document the experiences of Muslim citizens in some African states in their bid to have Islamic law, particularly family law, recognized. A substantial introduction sets the individual essays in a comparative framework of Islamic legal scholarship in an era of colonialism by contrasting and comparing vital questions as they occur in the African context.

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Author:   Shamil Jeppie ,  Ebrahim Moosa ,  Richard Roberts
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.647kg
ISBN:  

9789089641724

ISBN 10:   9089641726
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   25 March 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Table of Contents[-] - 6[-]List of Maps and Figures[-] - 8[-]Preface - 10[-]Introduction - 14[-]1 A legal and historical excursus of Muslim Personal law in the Colonial Cape, south africa, eighteenth to[-]twentieth Century - 64[-]2. Custom and Muslim Family law in the native Courts of the French Soudan, 1905-1912[-] - 86[-]3. Conflicts and tensions in the appointment of Chief Kadhi[-]in Colonial Kenya 1898-1960s - 110[-]4. Obtaining Freedom at the Muslims' tribunal: Colonial Kadijustiz and Women's divorce litigation in Ndar (senegal)[-] - 136[-]5. The Making and Unmaking of Colonial S[-]haria in the sudan - 166[-]6. Injudicious intrusions: Chiefly authority and islamic Judicial Practice in Maradi, Niger[-] - 184[-]7. Coping with Conflicts: Colonial Policy towards Muslim Personal law in Kenya and Post-Colonial Court Practice[-] - 222[-]8. Persistence and transformation in the Politics of sharica, nigeria, 1947-2003: in search of an explanatory Framework[-] - 248[-]9. The secular state and the state of islamic law in tanzania[-] - 274[-]10. State intervention in Muslim Family law in Kenya and Tanzania: applications of the gender Concept[-] - 306[-]11. Muslim Family law in South A[-]frica: Paradoxes and ironies - 332[-]N[-]otes on the Contributors - 356[-]Consolidated Bibliography - 360[-]Index[-] - 378

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Shamil Jeppie is associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town|Ebrahim Moosa is associate professor in the Department of Religion, Duke University|Richard Roberts is professor in the Department of History, Stanford University.

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