Colonial and Post-Colonial Governance of Islam : Continuities and Ruptures.
The contributors analyse the mutual impact of colonial and postcolonial governance on the development, organisation and mobilisation of Islam paying special attention to the ongoing battles over the codification of Islamic education, religious authority, law and practice while outlining the similari...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Colonial and Post-Colonial Governance of Islam; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Historical perspectives on colonial governance of Islam; Chapter 2 Governance of Islam in colonial Mozambique; Chapter 3 Educating Sudanese ulama for colonial sharia; Chapter 4 Ruptures? Governance in Husaynid-Colonial Tunisia, c. 1870-1914; Chapter 5 Governing Islam by tribes and constitutions : British mandate rule in Iraq; Chapter 6 The idea of a Muslim community: British India, 1857-1906; Part 2 Continuities and ruptures in the governance of Islam in post-colonial situations.
- Chapter 7 Colonial traces? Islamic dress, gender and the public presence of IslamChapter 8 Seeing like an expert, failing like a state? Interpreting the fate of a satellite town in early post-colonial Pakistan; Chapter 9 Continuities and ruptures in the governance of Islam in Malaysia; Chapter 10 Angare, the 'burning embers' of Muslim political resistance: Colonial and post-colonial regulation of Islam in Britain; Chapter 11 Portugese colonialism and the Islamic community of Lisbon; Chapter 12 Conclusion; Contributors.