Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar

ISBN-13: 9781107640931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 295 str.

Elke Stockreiter

Opis

Examining Islamic court records, this book sheds new light on Zanzibar's history of gender, social and racial identity.

Recenzje

'Stockreiter has done a tremendous amount of work to pull together a detailed picture of litigants' affairs in a unique social and political setting. She is clearly at ease with the difficult records she works with, and her argument is never unclear. … specialists in Zanzibar's history will delight in Stockreiter's showcasing of a rich trove of court records.' Fahad Ahmad Bishara, Law and History Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The kadhi's courts colonised; 2. Race and the impartial modern judiciary; 3. The kadhis and gender; 4. Litigants and the kadhi's courts; 5. The kadhi's alienation and autonomy; 6. Marriage, materialism and temporary compliance; 7. Property, debt and inheritance; 8. Bargaining for divorce; 9. The kadhis, ethnicity and the perpetuation of master-slave relations; Conclusion.