Manichaean Delirium
Subtitle: Decolonizing the Judiciary and Islamic Renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985 (Islam in Africa)
Publisher: Brill
Published: January 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9789004141100
Subjects: Islamic law; Social Science; Sociology; Sudan; Islamic Studies; Islam - Law
Description: The book investigates the Islamic renewal in Sudan as symptomatic of a larger postcolonial predicament. It investigates the dual judiciary, dubbed Manichaean by Fanon, whose laws have been at the center of this renewal. This colonial organization of the institution was characterized by a conflict between its dominant Civil Division and the subordinated Sharia Division. The book analyzes the political forces that converged since the independence of the country (1956) to profit from the resources of this dual judiciary. -- Back cover.