TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lhost,Elizabeth
TI  - Everyday Islamic law and the making of modern South Asia
T2  - Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
SN  - 9781469668116
U1  - 260.095409 23A
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
N2  - Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But qazis and muftis, alongside ordinary people without formal training in law, fought back as the colonial system in India sidelined Islamic legal experts. They petitioned the East India Company for employment, lobbied imperial legislators for recognition, and built robust institutions to serve their communities. By bringing legal debates into the public sphere, they resisted the colonial state's authority over personal law and rejected legal codification by embracing flexibility and possibility. With postcards, letters, and telegrams, they made everyday Islamic law vibrant and resilient and challenged the hegemony of the Anglo-Indian legal system
ER  -