Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges
Muslim family law in Africa is as resilient today as it was during the first part of the twentieth century when millions of Africans were subject to French and British colonial administrations. And though these administrations have been gone for decades, their legacies continue to haunt Islamic lega...
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Legal and historical excursus of Muslim personal law in the Colonial Cape, South Africa, eighteenth to twentieth century / Shouket Allie
- Custom and Muslim family law in the native courts of the French Soudan, 1905-1912 / Richard Roberts
- Conflicts and tensions in the appointment of Chief Kadhi in colonial Kenya 1898-1960s / Hassan Mwakimako
- Obtaining freedom at the Muslims' tribunal: colonial kadijustiz and women's divorce litigation in Ndar (Senegal) / Ghislaine Lydon
- Making and unmaking of colonial Shari'a in the Sudan / Shamil Jeppie
- Injudicious intrusions: chiefly authority and Islamic judicial practice in Maradi, Niger / Barbara M. Cooper
- Coping with conflicts: colonial policy towards Muslim personal law in Kenya and post-colonial court practice / Abdulkadir Hashim
- Persistence and transformation in the politics of Shari'a, Nigeria, 1947-2003: in search of an explanatory framework / Allan Christelow
- Secular state and the state of Islamic law in Tanzania / Robert V. Makaramba
- State intervention in Muslim family law in Kenya and the Tanzania: applications of the gender concept / Susan F. Hirsch
- Muslim family law in South Africa: paradoxes and ironies / Ebrahim Moosa