Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa : colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges / Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa & Richard Roberts, (eds.)
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies.
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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.