Muhamad Ali
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781474409209
- eISBN:
- 9781474418799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409209.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
It investigates how the Dutch and British administrators and scholars, who often criticised Islamic and customary laws for their lack of compatibility with their Western laws, were compelled to ...
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It investigates how the Dutch and British administrators and scholars, who often criticised Islamic and customary laws for their lack of compatibility with their Western laws, were compelled to develop formal and centralised legal systems in the colonies. Europeans put narrow limits on the jurisdiction of shari’ah as Islamic law, but leaving Muslim groups to interpret shari’ah through their fatwas and other non-governmental means. Colonial legal modernisation and Islamic reform collided in their negotiations as to whether local practices should be deemed Islamic or customary. Jurisprudential politics should include the compromises among different agents and thus legal plurality was the outcome.Less
It investigates how the Dutch and British administrators and scholars, who often criticised Islamic and customary laws for their lack of compatibility with their Western laws, were compelled to develop formal and centralised legal systems in the colonies. Europeans put narrow limits on the jurisdiction of shari’ah as Islamic law, but leaving Muslim groups to interpret shari’ah through their fatwas and other non-governmental means. Colonial legal modernisation and Islamic reform collided in their negotiations as to whether local practices should be deemed Islamic or customary. Jurisprudential politics should include the compromises among different agents and thus legal plurality was the outcome.
