Between Community and Qānūn: Documenting Islamic Legal Practice in Nineteenth-century British India
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Elizabeth D. Lhost
نام ساير پديدآوران
Alam, Muzaffar; Chakrabarty, Dipesh
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
The University of Chicago
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2017
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
555
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
Committee members: Hussin, Iza
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-07795-7
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
نظم درجات
South Asian Languages & Civilizations and History
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
The University of Chicago
امتياز متن
2017
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This dissertation traces the modernization of Islamic legal practice in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia by considering the relationship between colonial bureaucracy and local legal procedure. Focusing on the formalization and professionalization of the offices of the qāzī (Islamic judge) and muftī (jurisconsult; writer of legal opinions, fatwās), "Between Community and Qānūn" contends that the bureaucratization of legal procedure introduced new modes of legal activity that rendered Islamic law legible and relevant to the modern nation state. Traditionally, scholars have characterized South Asian legal history in terms of increasing Anglicization and codification, drawing attention to the colonial construction of law and the influence of knowledge-production projects like compilation, translation, and legislation. Though these projects had significant influence on the shape of the legal system, such attention to legislative efforts to segregate, systematize, and standardize legal practice has promoted a top-down understanding of law and legal activity throughout this period. By focusing on local practitioners like the qāzī, this dissertation takes a law and society approach to the study of colonial legal change to highlight the effects of authoring agreements, documenting exchanges, and recording everyday personal and familial affairs on ordinary individuals' understandings of and interactions with the legal system.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
History; Law; Islamic Studies; South Asian Studies
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social sciences;British empire;Bureaucracy;Colonialism;Islam;Law;Religion
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