Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan - Land, Courts and the Plurality of Practices

Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society.

About the author

Barbara Casciarri, (Ph.D. 1997, EHESS, Paris) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University Paris 8, France, and co-editor of Multidimensional Change in Sudan 1989-2011, (Oxford/New York 2015). She has conducted fieldwork on economic and political anthropology in Sudan and Morocco.

Mohamed A. Babiker, (Ph.D. 2004, Nottingham, UK) is Associate Professor of International Law, Founding Director of the Human Rights Centre and Head of International and Comparative Law at the University of Khartoum. He is the co-editor of Constitution Making and Human Rights Protection in South Sudan (London 2018).

Product details

• Assisted by: Mohamed A Babiker (Editor), Mohamed A. Babiker (Editor), Barbara Casciarri (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2018
• EAN: 9789004359116
• ISBN: 978-90-04-35911-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and So
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous