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Islamic Law on Trial : Contesting Colonial Power in British India / Sohaira Z. M. Siddiqui.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siddiqui, Sohaira Zahid, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East India Company--History.
- East India Company.
- Islamic law--India--History.
- Islamic law.
- Islamic law--Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Muslims--Legal status, laws, etc--Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Muslims.
- British--India--History.
- British.
- Great Britain--Colonies--India--History.
- Great Britain.
- Mughal Empire--History.
- Mughal Empire.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Laying the foundations of the colonial legal terrain
- Expanding the colonial legal terrain
- Realizing the colonial legal terrain through legal standardization and judicial restructuring
- Responding to the colonial legal terrain
- A new paradigm of lawyering
- Muslim judges in colonial courtrooms : adjudication and judicial critique
- The Anglo-Muhammadan legal canon refashioned.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-39639-1
- OCLC:
- 1496393864
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