Manichaean delirium : decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985 / by Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd Allāh ʻAlī.

Series:

Islam in Africa ; v. 7.

Islam in Africa, 1570-3754 ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic law--Sudan.

Islamic law.

Islam and justice--Sudan.

Islam and justice.

Islamic courts--Sudan.

Islamic courts.

Justice, Administration of (Islamic law)--Sudan.

Justice, Administration of (Islamic law).

Islam--Sudan--History.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book investigates the Islamic renewal in Sudan as symptomatic of a larger postcolonial predicament. It investigates the dual judiciary, dubbed “Manichaean” by Fanon, whose laws have been at the center of this renewal. This colonial organization of the institution was characterized by a conflict between its dominant Civil Division and the subordinated Sharia Division. The book analyzes the political forces that converged since the independence of the country (1956) to profit from the resources of this dual judiciary.

Contents:

In the shoes of the colonized

A tale of two courts : the Sharia of Allah and the custom of the patriarch

President Ismail Al-Azhari, 1965-1969 : the politics of moral injury

Nimerie's instant justice : tongue of God and the rogue

The Qadis and Mahmoud M. Taha : toward an economy of vendetta and martyrdom

Growing up in a Qadi's home : Hasan Al -Turabi and his theology of modernity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-410) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39633-1

9786612396335

90-474-4187-7

OCLC:

568741679

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004141100.i-427 DOI