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The politics of Islamic law : local elites, colonial authority, and the making of the Muslim state Iza R. Hussin

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2016.Description: viii, 351 p. : maps, ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226323343
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.59 HU PO
Summary: In The Politics of Islamic Law, Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of ‘Islamic law.’ She demonstrates that not only is Islamic law, not the shari’ah, its present institutional forms, substantive content, symbolic vocabulary, and relationship to state and society—in short, its politics—are built upon foundations laid during the colonial encounter.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Islamic Collection 340.59 HU PO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Oct2019 T0062531

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-344) and index.

In The Politics of Islamic Law, Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of ‘Islamic law.’ She demonstrates that not only is Islamic law, not the shari’ah, its present institutional forms, substantive content, symbolic vocabulary, and relationship to state and society—in short, its politics—are built upon foundations laid during the colonial encounter.

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