Manichaean delirium
Subtitle: decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985
By: by Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim.
Series: Islam in Africa -- v. 7
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9789004141100
Subjects: Islamic law -- Sudan.; Islam and justice -- Sudan.; Courts, Islamic -- Sudan.; Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) -- Sudan.; Islam -- Sudan -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-410) and index.
Table of contents: value: In the shoes of the colonized; value: A tale of two courts : the Sharia of Allah and the custom of the patriarch; value: President Ismail Al-Azhari, 1965-1969 : the politics of moral injury; value: Nimerie's instant justice : tongue of God and the rogue; value: The Qadis and Mahmoud M. Taha : toward an economy of vendetta and martyrdom; value: Growing up in a Qadi's home : Hasan Al -Turabi and his theology of modernity.