Ibrahim, Abd Allah Ali.

Manichaean delirium : decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic rene wal in Sudan, 1898-1985 / by Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. - xix, 426 p. ; 25 cm. - Islam in Africa, v. 7 1570-3754 ; .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-410) and index.

In the shoes of the colonized -- A tale of two courts : the Sharia o f Allah and the custom of the patriarch -- President Ismail Al-Azhari, 1965-1969 : the politics of moral injury -- Nimerie's instant justice : tongue of God and the rogue -- The Qadis and Mahmoud M. Taha : toward an economy of vendetta and martyrdom -- Growing up in a Qadi's home : H asan Al -Turabi and his theology of modernity.

9789004141100 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004141103 (hardback : alk. paper)


Islamic law--Sudan.
Islam and justice--Sudan.
Islamic courts--Sudan.
Justice, Administration of (Islamic law)--Sudan.

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