“The Ignorant Do Not Belong to Any Particular Sect”: Legal Practice and Social Identities in Colonial Zanzibar
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 prote...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Islamic law and society
Year: 2016, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 410-431 |
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B British judicial reforms B Arab colonialism B Shāfiʿīs B Islamic Law B Legal pluralism B Zanzibar |
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