Islamic Law on Trial

Contesting Colonial Power in British India

Dr. Sohaira Z. M. Siddiqui (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

263 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41922-3 (ISBN)

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Prior to the East India Company’s establishment in India in 1661, Islamic law was widely applied by the Mughal Empire. But as the Company’s power grew, it established a court system intended to limit Islamic law. Following the Great Rebellion of 1857, the decentralized Islamic legal system was replaced with a new standardized system. Islamic Law on Trial interrogates the project of juridical colonization and demonstrates that alongside—and despite—the violent displacement of Muslim legal sovereignty, Muslims were able to engage with and even champion Islamic law from inside the colonial judiciary. The outcome of their work was a paradoxical legal terrain that appeared legitimate to both Muslim practitioners and English colonizers. Sohaira Siddiqui challenges long-standing assumptions about Islamic law under British rule, the ways in which colonial power displaced preexisting traditions, and how local Muslim elites navigated the new institutions imposed upon them.

Sohaira Z. M. Siddiqui is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar. She is author of Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni and editor of Locating the Sharia.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Laying the Foundations of the Colonial Legal Terrain
2. Expanding the Colonial Legal Terrain
3. Realizing the Colonial Legal Terrain Through Legal Standardization and Judicial Restructuring
4. Responding to the Colonial Legal Terrain
5. A New Paradigm of Lawyering
6. Muslim Judges in Colonial Courtrooms: Adjudication and Judicial Critique
7. The Anglo-Muhammadan Legal Canon Refashioned
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	1 b-w image
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	0-520-41922-7 / 0520419227
ISBN-13	978-0-520-41922-3 / 9780520419223
Zustand	Neuware