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Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar (Paperback)
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Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar (Paperback)
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After the abolition of slavery in 1897, Islamic courts in Zanzibar
(East Africa) became central institutions where former slaves
negotiated socioeconomic participation. By using difficult-to-read
Islamic court records in Arabic, Elke E. Stockreiter reassesses the
workings of these courts as well as gender and social relations in
Zanzibar Town during British colonial rule (1890-1963). She shows
how Muslim judges maintained their autonomy within the sphere of
family law and describes how they helped advance the rights of
women, ex-slaves, and other marginalised groups. As was common in
other parts of the Muslim world, women usually had to buy their
divorce. Thus, Muslim judges played important roles as litigants
negotiated moving up the social hierarchy, with ethnicisation
increasingly influencing all actors. Drawing on these previously
unexplored sources, this study investigates how Muslim judges both
mediated and generated discourses of inclusion and exclusion based
on social status rather than gender.
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