Manichaean delirium : decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985

The book investigates the Islamic renewal in Sudan as symptomatic of a larger postcolonial predicament. It investigates the dual judiciary, dubbed Manichaean by Fanon, whose laws have been at the center of this renewal. This colonial organization of the institution was characterized by a conflict between its dominant Civil Division and the subordinated Sharia Division. The book analyzes the political forces that converged since the independence of the country (1956) to profit from the resources of this dual judiciary.

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Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim, Ph.D. (1987) in folklore and anthropology, Indiana University, is an Associate Professor of African History and Islam at the University of Missouri-Columbia

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Orthography	p. xv
Glossary	p. xvii
Introduction: Decolonization: Toward a Musical Approach to Religion	p. 1
Chapter 1 In the Shoes of the Colonized	p. 59
Chapter 2 A Tale of Two Courts: The Sharia of Allah and the Custom of the Patriarch	p. 115
Chapter 3 President Ismail al-Azhari, 1965-1969: The Politics of Moral Injury	p. 165
Chapter 4 Nimerie's Instant Justice: Tongue of God and the Rogue	p. 221
Chapter 5 The Qadis and Mahmoud M. Taha: Toward an Economy of Vendetta and Martyrdom	p. 273
Chapter 6 Growing Up in a Qadi's Home: Hasan al-Turabi and his Theology of Modernity	p. 323
Conclusion: The Difficult Birth of the Unified Judiciary	p. 367
Bibliography	p. 395
Index	p. 411

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