Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges / Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa & Richard Roberts, (eds.).
| Other author | Jeppie, Shamil. |
| Other author | Moosa, Ebrahim. |
| Other author | Roberts, Richard L., 1949- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, |
| Description | 388 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies. UNAUTHORIZED |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-376) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010553493 |
| ISBN | 9789089641724 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9089641726 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9789048511327 (ebk.) |
| ISBN | 9048511321 (ebk.) |