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Title: | The future of Islamic law in British Commonwealth territories in Africa |
Author: | Anderson, J.N.D. |
Book title: | African law: new law for new nations |
Year: | 1963 |
Pages: | 83-97 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa English-speaking Africa |
Subjects: | Islamic law Shari'a |
Abstract: | The author starts with two questions: the first concerns the practicability of maintaining a situation under which different members of the same national state are subject to different systems of law. The second involves the very nature of Islamic law and the possibility of its adaption to modern life: can an authoritative law, which is regarded as firmly based upon divine revelation, so adapt itself as to enable it to resolve the typical conflicts of an industrial society? The nature of Islamic law-law reform in Islamic countries - Islamic law in British Africa: A. The typical hierarchy of legal norms. B. The place of Islamic law (Ghana, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Nyasaland; Somaliland, Kenya, and Zanzibar; the Gambia and Tanganyika). C. Islamic law other than family law, succession, and Waqf (East Africa; West Africa: Northern Nigeria) - Conclusion. |