The Reinstatement of Islamic Law in Sudan Under Numayrī: An Evaluation of a Legal Experiment in the Light of Its Historical Context, Methodology,

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-12104-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 796 g

Reihe: Studies in Islamic Law and Society

The present study examines President Ja'far Numayri's experiment of reinstating Islamic law in the Sudan and the methods employed to this end, in the light of its historical context and sources of inspiration. Islamist legislation, legal circulars and judicial practice are here utilized as source material for the analysis of the methodology employed in Numayri's experiment and its application with a view to evaluating their impact on the uncodified Islamic law, state control of public morals, and on Sudanese society and economy. The focus of attention here is the judge as an instrument for implementing the government's Islamist policy by means of expanded judicial discretion based on a synthesis of traditional Islamic and modern non-Islamic sources of law. The book is intended for Islamists, legal historians, and lawyers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Layish, Aharon

Warburg, Gabriel R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Aharon Layish, Ph.D. (1973) is Professor at Hebrew University, has published extensively on Islamic, customary and Druze law and institutions, including Legal Documents on Libyan Tribal Society in Process of Sedentarization (Harrassowitz, 1998). He is Executive Editor of Islamic Law and Society and Chairman of 'The Israel Oriental Society'.
Gabriel R. Warburg, Ph.D. (1968) in History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Haifa University. His books include Islam Nationalism and Communism in a Traditional Society, the Case of Sudan (Frank Cass, 1978), Historical Discord in the Nile Valley (C.Hurst, 1992) and Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan Since the Mahdiyya (C. Hurst, 2002).