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Shari'a, Inshallah - Finding God in Somali Legal Politics (Paperback)
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Shari'a, Inshallah - Finding God in Somali Legal Politics (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as
antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi
Massoud tells a different story: for nearly 150 years, the Somali
people have embraced shari'a, commonly translated as Islamic law,
in the struggle for national identity and human rights. Lawyers,
community leaders, and activists throughout the Horn of Africa have
invoked God to oppose colonialism, resist dictators, expel
warlords, and to fight for gender equality - all critical steps on
the path to the rule of law. Shari'a, Inshallah traces the most
dramatic moments of legal change, political collapse, and
reconstruction in Somalia and Somaliland. Massoud upends the
conventional account of secular legal progress and demonstrates
instead how faith in a higher power guides people toward the rule
of law.
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