“The Ignorant Do Not Belong to Any Particular Sect”: Legal Practice and Social Identities in Colonial Zanzibar

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Stockreiter, Elke E. 2015. « “The Ignorant Do Not Belong to Any Particular Sect”: Legal Practice and Social Identities in Colonial Zanzibar ». Islamic Law and Society 23 (4): 410-31. doi:10.1163/15685195-00234p04, bibliographie, consulté le 9 mai 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/28797

Titre: “The Ignorant Do Not Belong to Any Particular Sect”: Legal Practice and Social Identities in Colonial Zanzibar
Auteur: Stockreiter, Elke E. Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
Date: 2016
Dans: Islamic Law and Society Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
Résumé: Omani and British reforms of Zanzibar’s judiciary date back to the 1820s, when the abolition of the slave trade justified Western control of the sultanate’s political economy. The sultan enacted the abolition of slavery as a legal status in 1897, seven years after Zanzibar had become a British protectorate. Through the lens of a 1948 inheritance case, I analyze how colonial judicial reforms shaped the negotiation of grievances and the judges’ interpretations of social equality. As members of the colonial elite, both Muslim and British judges were embedded in a racialized social hierarchy. Their reasoning not only exposes the continuous marginalization of former slaves but also attests to ex-slaves’ ability to assert material power. While a Muslim and a British judge used different hermeneutics, both validated the marriage of a Hadrami water carrier to a former slave, thereby affirming his entitlement to a share of his wife’s estate.
Sujet: Zanzibar Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
Langue: eng
volume: 23
numéro: 4
pages: 410-431
doi: 10.1163/15685195-00234p04
issn: 0928-9380, 1568-5195

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