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Shari‘a, Inshallah

Finding God in Somali Legal Politics

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Paperback, 250 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2021
ISBN13: 9781108965705
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Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different story: for nearly 150 years, the Somali people have embraced shari'a, commonly translated as Islamic law, in the struggle for national identity and human rights. Lawyers, community leaders, and activists throughout the Horn of Africa have invoked God to oppose colonialism, resist dictators, expel warlords, and to fight for gender equality - all critical steps on the path to the rule of law. Shari'a, Inshallah traces the most dramatic moments of legal change, political collapse, and reconstruction in Somalia and Somaliland. Massoud upends the conventional account of secular legal progress and demonstrates instead how faith in a higher power guides people toward the rule of law.

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ISBN13:9781108965705
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:250

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Introduction; 1. Embracing Shari'a and the Rule of Law; Part I. Colonialism and Its Aftermath, 1884–1991: 2. Contesting Shari'a: Colonial Legal Politics; 3. Constraining Shari'a: Postcolonial Legal Politics; Part II. Struggles of a Broken Nation, 1991–2021: 4. Restoring Shari'a: Islamic Courts in a Shattered Somalia; 5. Integrating Shari'a: Legal Politics in Somaliland; 6. Reclaiming Shari'a: Women's Activism in Somaliland; 7. The Rule of Law, Inshallah.

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