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03384aam a2200493 i 4500 001 779C5FE8DDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230418010100 008 220318t20222022ncuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022013241 020 $a 1469668122 020 $a 9781469668123 020 $a 1469668114 020 $a 9781469668116 035 $a (OCoLC)1266895803 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UAB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a KNS2107.M56 $b L46 2022 100 1 $a Lhost, Elizabeth, $e author. 245 10 $a Everyday Islamic law and the making of modern South Asia / $c Elizabeth Lhost. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 355 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Islamic civilization and Muslim networks 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-339) and index. 505 0 $a Life, law, and legal history -- Rethinking law, religion, and the state -- Becoming qazi in British Bombay: imperial expansion, legal administration, and everyday negotiation -- Creating a qazi class: navigating expectations between company and community -- From petitions to elections: Islamic legal practitioners and the exigencies of colonial rule -- Crown rule in the context of noninterference -- Personal law in the public sphere: fatwas, print publics, and the making of everyday Islamic legal discourse -- From files to fatwas: procedural uniformity and substantive flexibility in alternative legal spaces -- Accounting for qazis: negotiating life and law in small-town North India -- Analyzing sharia, state, and society -- Of judges and jurists: questioning the courts in Islamic legal discourse -- Whose law is it, anyway? Navigating legal paths in late colonial society -- The limits of legal possibilities. 520 $a "Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But qazis and muftis, alongside ordinary people without formal training in law, fought back as the colonial system in India sidelined Islamic legal experts. Following these developments from the beginning of the Raj through independence, Elizabeth Lhost rejects narratives of stagnation and decline to show how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal change"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Muslims $x History. $z India $x History. 650 0 $a Law $z India $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Islamic law $z India $x History. 650 0 $a Islamic courts $z India $x History. 650 0 $a Judges (Islamic law) $z India $x History. 651 0 $a India $x History $y British occupation, 1765-1947. 650 7 $a Islamic law. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00979949 650 7 $a Judges (Islamic law) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00984565 650 7 $a Muslims $x Legal status, laws, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01031055 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 648 7 $a 1765-1947 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781469668147 830 0 $a Islamic civilization & Muslim networks. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240717012120.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=779C5FE8DDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search