Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa : colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges / Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa & Richard Roberts, (eds.).
2010
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Title
Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa : colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges / Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa & Richard Roberts, (eds.).
Published
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Call Number
KQC156 .M87 2010
ISBN
9789089641724 (pbk.)
9089641726 (pbk.)
9789048511327 (ebk.)
9048511321 (ebk.)
9089641726 (pbk.)
9789048511327 (ebk.)
9048511321 (ebk.)
Description
388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)540182864
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-376) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Maps and Figures
7
Preface
9
Introduction: Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges / Richard Roberts
13
pt. I
COLONIZING MUSLIM FAMILY LAW IN AFRICA
1.
A Legal and Historical Excursus of Muslim Personal Law in the Colonial Cape, South Africa, Eighteenth to Twentieth Century / Shouket Allie
63
2.
Custom and Muslim Family Law in the Native Courts of the French Soudan, 1905-1912 / Richard Roberts
85
3.
Conflicts and Tensions in the Appointment of Chief Kadhi in Colonial Kenya 1898-1960s / Hassan Mwakimako
109
4.
Obtaining Freedom at the Muslims' Tribunal: Colonial Kadijustiz and Women's Divorce Litigation in Ndar (Senegal) / Ghislaine Lydon
135
5.
The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Shari'a in the Sudan / Shamil Jeppie
165
6.
Injudicious Intrusions: Chiefly Authority and Islamic Judicial Practice in Maradi, Niger / Barbara M. Cooper
183
pt. II
MUSLIM FAMILY LAW, THE POSTCOLONIAL STATE, AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN AFRICA
7.
Coping with Conflicts: Colonial Policy towards Muslim Personal Law in Kenya and Post-Colonial Court Practice / Abdulkadir Hashim
221
8.
Persistence and Transformation in the Politics of Shari'a, Nigeria, 1947-2003: In Search of an Explanatory Framework / Allan Christelow
247
9.
The Secular State and the State of Islamic Law in Tanzania / Robert V. Makaramba
273
10.
State Intervention in Muslim Family Law in Kenya and Tanzania: Applications of the Gender Concept / Susan F. Hirsch
305
11.
Muslim Family Law in South Africa: Paradoxes and Ironies / Ebrahim Moosa
331
Notes on the Contributors
355
Consolidated Bibliography
359
Index
377