| Description |
1 online resource (389 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies
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ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies.
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| Contents |
Table of Contents; List of Maps and Figures; Preface; Introduction; 1 A legal and historical excursus of Muslim Personal law in the Colonial Cape, south Africa, eighteenth to twentieth Century; 2. Custom and Muslim Family law in the native Courts of the French Soudan, 1905-1912; 3. Conflicts and tensions in the appointment of Chief Kadhi in Colonial Kenya 1898-1960s; 4. Obtaining Freedom at the Muslims' tribunal: Colonial Kadijustiz and Women's divorce litigation in Ndar (senegal); 5. The Making and Unmaking of Colonial S haria in the sudan. |
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6. Injudicious intrusions: Chiefly authority and islamic Judicial Practice in Maradi, Niger7. Coping with Conflicts: Colonial Policy towards Muslim Personal law in Kenya and Post-Colonial Court Practice; 8. Persistence and transformation in the Politics of sharica, nigeria, 1947-2003: in search of an explanatory Framework; 9. The secular state and the state of islamic law in tanzania; 10. State intervention in Muslim Family law in Kenya and Tanzania: applica. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Domestic relations (Islamic law) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Domestic relations (Islamic law) |
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Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Colonies -- Africa.
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Colonies. |
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Africa. |
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Colonies -- Administration.
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Colonies -- Administration. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Moosa, Ebrahim.
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Roberts, Richard L., 1949-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jeppie, Shamil. Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa : Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2010 9789089641724 |
| ISBN |
9789048511327 (electronic book) |
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9048511321 (electronic book) |
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9789089641724 |
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9089641726 |
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128263416X |
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9781282634169 |
| Standard No. |
9786612634161 |
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