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Author Maussen, Marcel

Title Colonial and Post-Colonial Governance of Islam : Continuities and Ruptures
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
Series IMISCOE Research
IMISCOE research.
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
Summary 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 similarities and differences, the continuities and ruptures in British, French and Portuguese colonial rule in Islamic regions. Using a shared conceptual framework they examine the nature of regulation and its outcomes in different historical periods in selected African, Middle Eastern, Asian and European c
Analysis Sociology
Sociologie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Islam and state -- Congresses
Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Social issues and processes.
Migration, immigration and emigration.
Sociology and anthropology.
RELIGION -- Theology.
Colonization
Islam and state
SUBJECT Islamic countries -- Colonization -- Congresses
Subject Islamic countries
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Bader, Veit-Michael
Moors, Annelies
ISBN 9789048514946
9048514940
1280118261
9781280118265
9089643567
9789089643568