TY - BOOK AU - Hussin,Iza R TI - Politics of Islamic law : local elites, colonial authority, and the making of the Muslim state SN - 9780226323343 AV - KBP144 .H88 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - University Of Chicago KW - Islamic law KW - History KW - Islam and politics KW - Islam and state N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contexts -- The historical roots of a contemporary puzzle -- Mapping the transformation -- Treaties, trials and representations -- The irony of jurisdiction: whose law is Islamic law? -- Trying Islamic law: trials in and of Islamic law -- Making the Muslim state: Islamic law and the politics of representation -- The paradox of Islamic law -- The colonial politics of Islamic law -- The contemporary politics of Islamic law ER -