Browsing by Author "Mwakimako, Hassan Abdulrahman"

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    Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963
    (2003) Mwakimako, Hassan Abdulrahman; Tayob, Abdulkader; Bakari, Muhammad
    This study demonstrates the flexibility and manipulability of Islamic leadership in a pluralistic situation, and argues that colonial policies and practices concerning Islamic legal practitioners (qadis), their institutions (qadis courts) reflected British prejudices about ethnicity and race. In a broad sense this work first examines how power, politics, ethnicity and colonialism influenced the development of political institutions among Muslims. Secondly, it debates the basis of the authority of the (ulam