Julia Stephens (New Jersey Rutgers University)

Broschiertes Buch

Governing Islam

Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia

Beschreibung

Tracing the roots of contemporary debates about Islam, law, and secularism to colonial patterns of legal development, Julia Stephens reveals how contradictions within secular governance have led to persistent instabilities in the evolution of Islamic legal institutions in modern South Asia.

Autor

Julia Stephens is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Her research and teaching span the fields of modern South Asian history, law, Islam, colonialism, and gender. Her writings have appeared in History Workshop Journal, Law and History Review, Modern Asian Studies, and the Journal of British History.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781316626283
• ISBN-10: 1316626288
• Artikelnr.: 51146717