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The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: viii, 351 p., ill.; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226323343
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Contents:
Part I. Contexts -- The historical roots of a contemporary puzzle -- Mapping the transformation -- Part II. Treaties, trials and representations -- The irony of jurisdiction: whose law is Islamic law? -- Trying Islamic law : trials in and of Islamic law -- Making the Muslim state : Islamic law and the politics of representation -- Part III. The paradox of Islamic law -- The colonial politics of Islamic law -- The contemporary politics of Islamic law.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-344) and index.

Part I. Contexts -- The historical roots of a contemporary puzzle -- Mapping the transformation -- Part II. Treaties, trials and representations -- The irony of jurisdiction: whose law is Islamic law? -- Trying Islamic law : trials in and of Islamic law -- Making the Muslim state : Islamic law and the politics of representation -- Part III. The paradox of Islamic law -- The colonial politics of Islamic law -- The contemporary politics of Islamic law.

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