ISBN:
9781469668123
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9781469668116
Language:
English
Pages:
355 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Leonard, Zak, 1988 - [Rezension von: Lhost, Elizabeth, Everyday Islamic law and the making of modern South Asia] 2024
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Lemons, Katherine [Rezension von: Lhost, Elizabeth, Everyday Islamic law and the making of modern South Asia] 2023
Series Statement:
Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lhost, Elizabeth Everyday Islamic law and the making of modern South Asia
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lhost, Elizabeth Everyday Islamic law and the making of modern South Asia
DDC:
340.590954
Keywords:
Muslims Legal status, laws, etc
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History
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Law Islamic influences
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History
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Islamic law History
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Islamic courts History
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Judges (Islamic law) History
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India History British occupation, 1765-1947
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Britisch-Indien
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Islamisches Recht
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Personenrecht
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Südasien
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Großbritannien
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Kolonialismus
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Recht
;
Islam
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 315-339
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Index: Seiten 341-355
