TY - BOOK AU - Iza R.Hussin TI - The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State SN - 9780226323343 PY - 2016/// CY - Chicago, London PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Islamic law KW - History KW - Islam and politics KW - Islam and state N1 - 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 ER -