Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963

Doctoral Thesis

2003

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Mwakimako, Hassan Abdulrahman
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Tayob, Abdulkader
Bakari, Muhammad
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University of Cape Town

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Department of Religious Studies
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Faculty of Humanities
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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
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Summary in English.||Bibliography: leaves 265-272.

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Religious Studies

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Mwakimako, H. 2003. Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963. University of Cape Town.

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