عنوان

Between Community and Qānūn: Documenting Islamic Legal Practice in Nineteenth-century British India

Number

TL49457

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Between Community and Qānūn: Documenting Islamic Legal Practice in Nineteenth-century British India

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Elizabeth D.  Lhost

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Alam, Muzaffar; Chakrabarty, Dipesh

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

555

Text of Note

Committee members: Hussin, Iza

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-07795-7

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

South Asian Languages & Civilizations and History

Body granting the degree

The University of Chicago

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

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.

History; Law; Islamic Studies; South Asian Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;British empire;Bureaucracy;Colonialism;Islam;Law;Religion

Yount-Andre, Chelsie Jeannette

Alam, Muzaffar; Chakrabarty, Dipesh

Subdivision

South Asian Languages & Civilizations and History

The University of Chicago

Call Number

1927908357; 10273063

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[Thesis]

276903

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