Book Review: The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State by Iza R. Hussin
In The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State, Iza R. Hussin traces a riveting history of Islamic law as it encounters, and is inevitably transformed by, British colonialism in Malaya, Egypt and India. It is a work of unique critical sensibilitie...
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Language: | English |
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London School of Economics
2016
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Online Access: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23284/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23284/1/index.html http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/11/15/book-review-the-politics-of-islamic-law-local-elites-colonial-authority-and-the-making-of-the-muslim-state-by-iza-r-hussin/ |
Summary: | In The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State, Iza R. Hussin traces a riveting history of Islamic law as it encounters, and is inevitably transformed by, British colonialism in Malaya, Egypt and India. It is a work of unique critical sensibilities, setting the scene for future interdisciplinary research of colonial and postcolonial Islamic law as fruitful analytical categories, finds Vanja Hamzić. |
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