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Everyday Islamic law and the making of modern South Asia
Author
Title
Everyday Islamic law and the making of modern South Asia / Elizabeth Lhost.
ISBN
9781469668116
1469668114
9781469668123
1469668122
9781469668130
9781469668147
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Summary
"Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But qazis and muftis, alongside ordinary people without formal training in law, fought back as the colonial system in India sidelined Islamic legal experts. Following these developments from the beginning of the Raj through independence, Elizabeth Lhost rejects narratives of stagnation and decline to show how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal change"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
ebook version :
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 29, 2022
Series
Islamic civilization and Muslim networks.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-339) and index.
Contents
Life, law, and legal history
Rethinking law, religion, and the state
Becoming qazi in British Bombay: imperial expansion, legal administration, and everyday negotiation
Creating a qazi class: navigating expectations between company and community
From petitions to elections: Islamic legal practitioners and the exigencies of colonial rule
Crown rule in the context of noninterference
Personal law in the public sphere: fatwas, print publics, and the making of everyday Islamic legal discourse
From files to fatwas: procedural uniformity and substantive flexibility in alternative legal spaces
Accounting for qazis: negotiating life and law in small-town North India
Analyzing shariʻa, state, and society
Of judges and jurists: questioning the courts in Islamic legal discourse
Whose law is it, anyway? Navigating legal paths in late colonial society
The limits of legal possibilities.
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Genre/Form
History.
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