Manichaean delirium
Subtitle: decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985
By: by Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim.
Series: Islam in Africa -- 7
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
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 and index.
Table of contents: title: In the shoes of the colonized; title: A tale of two courts : the Sharia of Allah and the custom of the patriarch; title: President Ismail Al-Azhari, 1965-1969 : the politics of moral injury; title: Nimerie's instant justice : tongue of God and the rogue; title: The Wadis and Mahmoud M. Taha : towards an economy of vendetta and martyrdom; title: Growing up in a Wadi's home : Hasan Al -Turabi and his theology of modernity; title: The difficult birth of the unified judiciary.