TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hussin,Iza R.
TI  - The politics of Islamic law: local elites, colonial authority, and the making of the Muslim state
SN  - 9780226323343
U1  - 340.59 HU PO 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Chicago : 
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Islamic law
KW  - History
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Islam and state
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-344) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -