Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa: colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges

✍ Scribed by Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa, Richard Roberts

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 389
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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 legal schools, scholars, and practices in many African nations. In this fascinating volume, the editors bring together a number of essays that address key questions relating to Islamic law in Africa, documenting the struggles that Muslims have endured over the years and revealing Islamic law’s place within the multicultural nation-states of contemporary Africa.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
......Page 6
List of Maps and Figures
......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1 A legal and historical excursus of Muslim Personal law in the Colonial Cape, south africa, eighteenth to
twentieth Century......Page 64
2. Custom and Muslim Family law in the native Courts of the French Soudan, 1905-1912
......Page 86
3. Conflicts and tensions in the appointment of Chief Kadhi
in Colonial Kenya 1898-1960s......Page 110
4. Obtaining Freedom at the Muslims’ tribunal: Colonial Kadijustiz and Women’s divorce litigation in Ndar (senegal)
......Page 136
5. The Making and Unmaking of Colonial S
haria in the sudan......Page 166
6. Injudicious intrusions: Chiefly authority and islamic Judicial Practice in Maradi, Niger
......Page 184
7. Coping with Conflicts: Colonial Policy towards Muslim Personal law in Kenya and Post-Colonial Court Practice
......Page 222
8. Persistence and transformation in the Politics of sharica, nigeria, 1947-2003: in search of an explanatory Framework
......Page 248
9. The secular state and the state of islamic law in tanzania
......Page 274
10. State intervention in Muslim Family law in Kenya and Tanzania: applications of the gender Concept
......Page 306
11. Muslim Family law in South A
frica: Paradoxes and ironies......Page 332
N
otes on the Contributors......Page 356
Consolidated Bibliography......Page 360
Index
......Page 378

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