Elke Stockreiter

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781107640931
• ISBN-10: 1107640938
• Artikelnr.: 49138637

Autorenporträt

Elke E. Stockreiter is an Assistant Professor of History at American University, Washington, DC. She obtained her Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and previously held a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Eastern African Studies, and anthologies, such as Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts and Elizabeth Thornberry, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

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.