Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa :  colonial legacies and p ost-colonial challenges / 
Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa & Richard Rob erts, (eds.). 
 - Amsterdam :  Amsterdam University Press,   c2010. 
 - 388 p. :  ill., maps ;   24 cm. 
 - ISIM series on contemporary Muslim societies .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-376) and index. 
<br/><br/>  Legal and historical excursus of Muslim personal law in the Colonial Cape, South Africa, eighteenth to twentieth century /   Custom and Muslim family law in the native courts of the French Soudan, 1905-1912 /   Conflicts and tensions in the appointment of Chief Kadhi in colonial Kenya 1898-1960s /   Obtaining freedom at the Muslims' tribunal: colonial k adijustiz and women's divorce litigation in Ndar (Senegal) /   Making and unmaking of colonial Shari'a in the Sudan /   Injudicious intrusions: chiefly authority and I slamic judicial practice in Maradi, Niger /   Coping with conflicts: colonial policy towards Muslim personal law in K enya and post-colonial court practice /   Pers istence and transformation in the politics of Shari'a, Nigeria, 1947-20 03: in search of an explanatory framework /   S ecular state and the state of Islamic law in Tanzania /   State intervention in Muslim family law in Kenya and the Tanzania: applications of the gender concept /   Muslim family law in South Africa: paradoxes and ironies /   Shouket Allie --   Richard Roberts --   Hassan Mwakimako --   Ghislai ne Lydon --   Shamil Jeppie --   Barbara M. Cooper --   Abdulkadir Hashim --   Allan Christelow --   Robert V. Ma karamba --   Susan F. Hirsch --   Ebrah im Moosa. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789089641724 (pbk.) 9089641726 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010-553493 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Domestic relations--Africa, Sub-Saharan.<br/>Muslims-- Legal status, laws, etc.--Africa, Sub-Saharan.<br/>Domestic relations (Islamic law)--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.67015088297