Julia Stephens (New Jersey Rutgers University)

Governing Islam

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Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the roots of contemporary debates about Islam, law, and secularism to colonial patterns of legal development, Julia Stephens reveals how contradictions within secular governance have led to persistent instabilities in the evolution of Islamic legal institutions in modern South Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781316626283
• ISBN-10: 1316626288
• Artikelnr.: 51146717

Autorenporträt

Julia Stephens is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Her research and teaching span the fields of modern South Asian history, law, Islam, colonialism, and gender. Her writings have appeared in History Workshop Journal, Law and History Review, Modern Asian Studies, and the Journal of British History.

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps and figures
Acknowledgments
Note on translation, transliteration, and abbreviations
Introduction
1. Forging secular legal governance
2. Personal law and the problem of marital property
3. Taming custom
4. Ritual and the authority of reason
5. Pathologizing Muslim sentiment
6. Islamic economy - a forgone alternative
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.