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colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges

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388

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Cover of: Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa
Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa: colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges
2010, Amsterdam University Press
in English
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Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges
2010, Amsterdam University Press
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Table of Contents

Legal and historical excursus of Mulsim 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-376) and index.

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Amsterdam
Series
ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies, ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
346.67015088297
Library of Congress
KQC156 .M87 2010, K

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Pagination
388 p. :
Number of pages
388

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Open Library
OL24807740M
Internet Archive
muslimfamilylaws00jepp
ISBN 10
9089641726, 9048511321
ISBN 13
9789089641724, 9789048511327
LCCN
2010553493
OCLC/WorldCat
540182864

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