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

By:

Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd Allāh ʻAlī

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Islam in Africa ; v. 7.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 426 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789047441878
9047441877
1282396331
9781282396333
9786612396335
6612396334

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Manichaean delirium.DDC classification:

340.5/909624 22

LOC classification:

KTQ469.5 .I27 2008eb

Other classification:

BE 8607
MI 13060

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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.

Summary: Uses the concept of the "Manichaean" geography of the colony, popularized by Fanon, to account for the virulent Islamic renewal in Sudan. Focusing on the Sudan judiciary, characterized by an unrelenting rift between its civil and Sharia divisions, this book examines the various forces that sought to profit from these Manichaean resources.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-410) and index.

Uses the concept of the "Manichaean" geography of the colony, popularized by Fanon, to account for the virulent Islamic renewal in Sudan. Focusing on the Sudan judiciary, characterized by an unrelenting rift between its civil and Sharia divisions, this book examines the various forces that sought to profit from these Manichaean resources.