...Youssef Belal This article is devoted to the study of questions of knowledge, law, and ethics in Islamic context. Starting with a discussion of assumptions about Islamic ethical practices in recent anthropological and historical works on the fatwa, it explores procedures of truth seeking and modes...

... of granting maintenance to Shah Bano in 1985, Parliament subsequently overturned the judgment through the Muslim Women’s Act, 1986, to create alternate provisions. The case triggered a tremendous wave of protests simultaneously, against unfair provisions of Muslim law and against the state’s interference...

...Upendra Baxi This conversation is largely about the ways of doing and writing histories: whether legal/juridical or social histories of law. The difference between the two genres is briefly explored in Baxi’s essay, but obviously more collaborative work is needed. As concerns histories of human...

... to prisoners. On these occasions, up to 10 percent of prisoners were released. Indicative of the broader refashioning of colonial rule that occurred after the rebellion, this essay examines these rare but spectacular events by positioning the history of pardon within the wider structure of colonial law...

...Alastair McClure; Saumya Saxena This introduction offers a critical survey of existing literature on law in modern India and presents an overview of the four essays in the special section, which illustrates new directions in the field of Indian legal history. Copyright © 2018 Duke University...

... and codification issues and toward the political apparatuses in which Islamic jurisprudences are embedded. Drawing on ethnographic research, Landry asks how the secular state helps construct the religious laws applied in its family courts. In pursuing this question, he shows that under current conditions, judges...

...Sarah Ghabrial Abstract The main intervention of this special section is to identify and reposition race and colonial law as (conspicuously) absent referents in widely accepted genealogies of the state of exception—most notably, that of Giorgio Agamben—and to offer methodological pathways, based...

... a conceptual framework for doing so, centered on a Gramscian rethinking of the relationship among law, social movements, and state formation in the longue durée of Indian democracy. Working across three hegemonic transitions in Indian democracy, we argue that social movements and the state have constituted...

... they viewed as belonging to the nation they envisioned. In so doing, Cameroonian nationalists revealed embryonic refugee law to be more aspirational than universally applicable—but nonetheless laid claim to its protections in ways that did, in some cases, sway the courts. The focus on the legal cases...

...Erin Stiles Law and Power in the Islamic World Sami Zubaida New York: I. B. Tauris, 2005 vii, 248 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $26.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2008 Law and Power in the Islamic World Empire and in the states...

...Veerle Van Gijsegem Duke University Press 2006 Criminal Law of French Origin and Criminal Behavior of African Occult Origin: The Modernity of Witchcraft Trials in the West...

...Susan Akram The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective John Quigley Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005 360 pp., $79.95 (cloth), $22.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2006...

...Paul Sedra The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt Tamir Moustafa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 x, 328 pp., $85.00 (cloth) © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Himalayan People’s War: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion as having...

...Regan Buck Bardeen The Maphumulo Uprising: War, Law, and Ritual in the Zulu Rebellion Jeff Guy Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005 xii + 276 pp., $34.95 (paper) © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Producing Desire: “regulate...

... as suspected Wahhabis. Yet, in then seeking to distinguish “faqirs” from “fanatics,” colonial law used logics and exceptions with two important implications. First, as the “Wahhabi” came to imply a violent counterclaim to sovereignty, it also became a juridical formulation more political than religious...

...Tanika Sarkar Sarkar’s article looks at the Hindu ritual of widow immolation, which colonial law abolished in 1830. It explores the administration of the ritual before abolition and how, in the process of governance, the widow’s consent emerged as a prominent keyword in colonial bureaucratic...

...Suren Pillay In 1965 apartheid was declared a crime against humanity. Taking apartheid as a moment in the career of colonial law in South Africa, Pillay’s essay considers the political effects of a debate among a section of South Africa’s liberal critics. It hinged on whether or not to work within...

...-Determination in Law . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1996 . Mignolo Walter D. Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2000 . ———. “On Comparison: Who Is Comparing What and Why...

...Asghar Ali Engineer © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 2 (1994) Communal Violence and the Role of law Enforcement Agencies Asghar Ali Engineer The role of the police in communal riots has be- most visible part...

... SIDE) SUIT AGAINST THE the residence as shown above. GOVERNMENT OF BANGLADESH TO REPEAL 2. That the petitioners are activists engaged in upholding UNDEMOCRATIC AND DISCRIMINATORY and protecting women's rights as envisaged and guaranteed LAWS...