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The politics of Islamic law : local elites, colonial authority, and the making of the Muslim state /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hussin, Iza R. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Islamic law > History.
Islam and politics.
Islam and state.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Contexts
  • The historical roots of a contemporary puzzle
  • Mapping the transformation
  • Treaties, trials and representations
  • The irony of jurisdiction: whose law is Islamic law?
  • Trying Islamic law: trials in and of Islamic law
  • Making the Muslim state: Islamic law and the politics of representation
  • The paradox of Islamic law
  • The colonial politics of Islamic law
  • The contemporary politics of Islamic law.