Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa
Subtitle: colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges
By: Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa & Richard Roberts, (eds.).
Series: ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies; ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9789089641724; 9789048511327
Subjects: Domestic relations; Muslims; Domestic relations (Islamic law); Legal status, laws
Description: Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges offers comparative historical, anthropological and legal perspectives on the ways in which French and British colonial administrations interacted with the diversity of Islamic legal schools, scholars, and practices in Africa. The authors examine how the colonial impress marks Islamic legal practices in Africa and its impact on the post-colonial and contemporary periods. Several chapters document the experiences of Muslim citizens in some African states in their bid to have Islamic law, particularly family law, recognized. A substantial introduction sets the individual essays in a comparative framework of Islamic legal scholarship in an era of colonialism by contrasting and comparing vital questions as they occur in the African context. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-376) and index.
Table of contents: title: Legal and historical excursus of Mulsim personal law in the Colonial Cape, South Africa, eighteenth to twentieth century  -- Shouket Allie; title: Custom and Muslim family law in the native courts of the French Soudan, 1905-1912  -- Richard Roberts; title: Conflicts and tensions in the appointment of Chief Kadhi in colonial Kenya 1898-1960s  -- Hassan Mwakimako; title: Obtaining freedom at the Muslims' tribunal: colonial kadijustiz and women's divorce litigation in Ndar (Senegal)  -- Ghislaine Lydon; title: Making and unmaking of colonial Shari'a in the Sudan  -- Shamil Jeppie; title: Injudicious intrusions: chiefly authority and Islamic judicial practice in Maradi, Niger  -- Barbara M. Cooper; title: Coping with conflicts: colonial policy towards Muslim personal law in Kenya and post-colonial court practice  -- Abdulkadir Hashim; title: Persistence and transformation in the politics of Shari'a, Nigeria, 1947-2003: in search of an explanatory framework  -- Allan Christelow; title: Secular state and the state of Islamic law in Tanzania  -- Robert V. Makaramba; title: State intervention in Muslim family law in Kenya and the Tanzania: applications of the gender concept  -- Susan F. Hirsch; title: Muslim family law in South Africa: paradoxes and ironies -- Ebrahim Moosa.