The politics of Islamic law : local elites, colonial authority, and the making of the Muslim state
By: Hussin, Iza R
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BookPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2016.Description: viii, 351 p. : maps, ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780226323343Subject(s): Islamic law -- History | Islam and politics | Islam and stateDDC classification: 340.59 HU PO | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Islamic Collection | 340.59 HU PO (Browse shelf) | Available | Oct2019 | T0062531 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-344) and index.
Part I. Contexts -- The historical roots of a contemporary puzzle -- Mapping the transformation -- Part II. Treaties, trials and representations -- The irony of jurisdiction: whose law is Islamic? -- Trying Islamic law: trials in and of Islamic law -- Making the Muslim state: Islamic law and the politics of representation -- Part III. The paradox of Islamic law -- The colonial politics of Islamic law -- The contemporary politics of Islamic law.
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.