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SUMMARY:The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites\, Colonial Authority and
  the Making of the Muslim State.  - Dr Iza Hussin\, Department of POLIS\, 
 University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Barbara Roe
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk will present material from the forthcoming
  book\, The Politics of Islamic Law (U Chicago Press 2015)\, which underta
 kes a cross-regional comparison of India\, Malaya and Egypt during the Bri
 tish colonial period\, based upon extensive archival work in English\, Ara
 bic and Malay\, tracing the transformation of Islamic law from an uncodifi
 ed and locally administered set of legal institutions with wide-ranging ju
 risdiction to a codified\, state-centered system with jurisdiction largely
  over family law. This new Islamic law has endured into the post-colonial 
 Muslim state\, providing the frame within which Islam is articulated in ma
 ny Muslim majority and minority states today\, setting the agenda for legi
 slation and social policy\, and defining the limits of reform. This book o
 ffers a genealogy of contemporary Islamic law\; a political analysis of el
 ite negotiations over religion\, state and society in the British colonial
  period\; a history of current Muslim approaches to law\, state and identi
 ty. The threads of secularism\, colonial and Muslim modernities\, and the 
 rise of law as a mode of power run throughout\, linking critical debates i
 n comparative politics\, history\, comparative law and Islamic studies –
  on how state power is constituted and maintained\, on the capacity of eve
 n weakened local elites to shape political outcomes\, on the potential of 
 Islam to undergird and undermine political authority.
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 5.00 pm
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