Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa : Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges

Abstract

Table of Contents[-] - 6[-]List of Maps and Figures[-] - 8[-]Preface - 10[-]Introduction - 14[-]1 A legal and historical excursus of Muslim Personal law in the Colonial Cape, south africa, eighteenth to[-]twentieth Century - 64[-]2. Custom and Muslim Family law in the native Courts of the French Soudan, 1905-1912[-] - 86[-]3. Conflicts and tensions in the appointment of Chief Kadhi[-]in Colonial Kenya 1898-1960s - 110[-]4. Obtaining Freedom at the Muslims' tribunal: Colonial Kadijustiz and Women's divorce litigation in Ndar (senegal)[-] - 136[-]5. The Making and Unmaking of Colonial S[-]haria in the sudan - 166[-]6. Injudicious intrusions: Chiefly authority and islamic Judicial Practice in Maradi, Niger[-] - 184[-]7. Coping with Conflicts: Colonial Policy towards Muslim Personal law in Kenya and Post-Colonial Court Practice[-] - 222[-]8. Persistence and transformation in the Politics of sharica, nigeria, 1947-2003: in search of an explanatory Framework[-] - 248[-]9. The secular state and the state of islamic law in tanzania[-] - 274[-]10. State intervention in Muslim Family law in Kenya and Tanzania: applications of the gender Concept[-] - 306[-]11. Muslim Family law in South A[-]frica: Paradoxes and ironies - 332[-]N[-]otes on the Contributors - 356[-]Consolidated Bibliography - 360[-]Index[-] - 378