ABOUT THIS BOOK

This comprehensive collection examines a broad spectrum of Islamic governance during colonial and postcolonial eras. The book pays special attention to the ongoing battles over the codification of Islamic education, religious authority, law and practice while outlining the similarities and differences in British, French and Portuguese colonial rule in Islamic regions. Using a shared conceptual framework the contributors to this volume analyze the nature of regulation in different historical periods and geographical areas. From Africa and the Middle East to Asia and Europe, Colonial and Post-Colonial Governance of Islam opens up new vistas for research in Islamic studies

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Marcel Maussen is assistant professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam. Veit Bader is professor emeritus of social and political philosophy and sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Annelies Moors is professor of contemporary Muslim societies at the University of Amsterdam.

REVIEWS

“This book offers a fresh, innovative perspective by combining analysis of colonial state-Islam relations with contemporary situations of Islam in Europe. Such a combination highlights the relevance of history and political culture to better understand the institutional status of Islam today. I recommend this to scholars of political science and religious studies interested in the topic of Islam in the West.”

— Jocelyne Cesari, Director of the Islam in the West Program, Harvard University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

1. Introduction
      Marcel Maussen and Veit Bader
Part 1: Historical perspectives on colonial governance of Islam
2. Governance of Islam in colonial Mozambique
      Liazzat J. K. Bonate
3. Educating Sudanese ulama for colonial sharia
      Shamil Jeppie
4. Ruptures? Governance in Husaynid-Colonial Tunisia, c. 1870–1914
      Julia Clancy-Smith
5. Governening Islam by tribes and constitutions: British mandate rule in Iraq
      Michiel Leezenberg and Mariwan Kanie
6. The idea of a Muslim community: British India, 1857–1906
      Faisal Devji
Part 2: Continuities and ruptures in the governance of Islam in post-colonial situations
7. Colonial Traces? Islamic dress, gender and the public presence of Islam
      Annelies Moors
8. Seeing like an expert, failing like a state? Interpreting the fate of a satellite town in early post-colonial Pakistan
      Markus Daechsel
9. Continuities and ruptures in the governance of Islam in Malaysia
      Karen Meerschaut and Serge Gutwirth
10. Angare, the 'burning embers' of Muslim political resistance: Colonial and post-colonial regulation of Islam in Britain
      Maleiha Malik
11. Portuguese colonialism and the Islamic community of Lisbon
      Mário Artur Machaquiero
12. Conclusion
      Veit Bader and Marcel Maussen

Contributors