Sharīʻa in Africa today
Subtitle: reactions and responses
By: edited by John Chesworth & Franz Kogelmann
Series: Islam in Africa -- volume 15
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9789004250543; 9789004262126
Subjects: Islamic law; Islamic courts
Description: Sharia in Africa Today. Reactions and Responses' explores how Islamic law has influenced relations between Muslims and Christians, through a series of case studies by young African scholars working in Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John Chesworth and Franz Kogelmann; title: "Sharia and reality": a domain of dontest among Sunni  Muslims in the District of Shendi, Northern Sudan / Osman Mohamed Osman Ali; title: Contradicting state ideology in Sudan : Christian-Muslim  relations among the internally displaced persons in  Khartoum-The Case of Mandela and Wad al-Bashir Camps / Salma Mohamed Abdalmunim Abdalla; title: The evolution of the independent sharia panel in Osun State,  South-West Nigeria / Abdul-Fatah Kola Makinde; title: "Education is Education": contemporary Muslim views on  Muslim women's education in northern Nigeria / Chikas Danfulani; title: We Introduced sharia'-the Izala Movement in Nigeria as  initiator of sharia-reimplementation in the north of the  country : some Reflections / Ramzi Ben Amara; title: Debates on kadhi's courts and Christian-Muslim relations in Isiolo Town : thematic issues and emergent trends / Halkano Abdi Wario; title: "Necessity removes restrictions" : Swahili Muslim women's  perspectives on their participation in the public sphere / Esha Faki Mwinyihaji; title: Women's views on the role of kadhi's courts: a case study of  Kendu Bay, Kenya / Rebecca Osiro; title: Demand for the re-Introduction of Kadhi's courts on the Tanzanian mainland : a religious, social and political  analysis  / William Andrew Kopwe; title: "Chaos will never have a chance": sharia debates and tolerance in a rrovincial Tanzanian town / Bernardin Mfumbusa.