Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia by Lhost, Elizabeth
Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia by Lhost, Elizabeth

Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state...
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Author: Elizabeth Lhost
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Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia by Lhost, Elizabeth

Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia

$642.33
Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia by Lhost, Elizabeth

Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia

$642.33
Author: Elizabeth Lhost
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But qazis and muftis, alongside ordinary people without formal training in law, fought back as the colonial system in India sidelined Islamic legal experts. They petitioned the East India Company for employment, lobbied imperial legislators for recognition, and built robust institutions to serve their communities. By bringing legal debates into the public sphere, they resisted the colonial state's authority over personal law and rejected legal codification by embracing flexibility and possibility. With postcards, letters, and telegrams, they made everyday Islamic law vibrant and resilient and challenged the hegemony of the Anglo-Indian legal system.

Following these developments from the beginning of the Raj through independence, Elizabeth Lhost rejects narratives of stagnation and decline to show how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal change. The rich archive of unpublished fatwa files, qazi notebooks, and legal documents they left behind chronicles their efforts to make Islamic law relevant for everyday life, even beyond colonial courtrooms and the confines of family law. Lhost shows how ordinary Muslims shaped colonial legal life and how their diversity and difference have contributed to contemporary debates about religion, law, pluralism, and democracy in South Asia and beyond.



Author: Elizabeth Lhost
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 07/12/2022
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9781469668123


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/02/2022

About the Author
Lhost, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Lhost is lecturer in history and postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College.
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