Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan: Land, Courts and the Plurality of Practices

Approx. 280 pp., incl. 11 Annexes and 1 map.
ISBN: 978-90-04-35911-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Leiden Studies in Islam and So

Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society. It is the outcome of the international research program ANDROMAQUE (Anthropologie du Droit dans les Mondes Musulmans Africains et Asiatiques), funded by the French ANR (Agence National de la Recherche) between 2011 and 2014. Crossing two disciplinary perspectives, anthropology and law, the present volume contains original fieldwork data on contemporary urban and rural Sudan. Focusing on two major domains, land property and courts, several case studies demonstrate the relevance of an approach based on “legal practices” to underline, first, the plurality and hybridity of law systems and the relative role of the Islamic reference in Sudanese society, and, secondly, the reshaping of legal behaviors and norms after the breaking point of South Sudan's independence in 2011.

Contributors are: Zahir M. Abdal-Kareem; Azza A. Abdel Aziz; Musa A. Abdul-Jalil; Munzoul M.A. Assal; Mohamed A. Babiker; Yazid Ben Hounet; Barbara Casciarri; Baudoin Dupret; Philippe Gout; Enrico Ille.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casciarri, Barbara

A. Babiker, Mohamed

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Casciarri, (Ph.D. 1997, EHESS, Paris) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University Paris 8, France, and co-editor of Multidimensional Change in Sudan 1989-2011, (Oxford/New York 2015). She has conducted fieldwork on economic and political anthropology in Sudan and Morocco.

Mohamed A. Babiker, (Ph.D. 2004, Nottingham, UK) is Associate Professor of International Law, Founding Director of the Human Rights Centre and Head of International and Comparative Law at the University of Khartoum. He is the co-editor of Constitution Making and Human Rights Protection in South Sudan (London 2018).