{"product_id":"islamic-law-on-trial-contesting-colonial-power-in-british-india-hardcover","title":"Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in British India - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSohaira Z. M. Siddiqui\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrior to the East India Company's establishment in India in 1661, Islamic law was widely applied by the Mughal Empire. But as the Company's power grew, it established a court system intended to limit Islamic law. Following the Great Rebellion of 1857, the decentralized Islamic legal system was replaced with a new standardized system. \u003ci\u003eIslamic Law on Trial\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates the project of juridical colonization and demonstrates that alongside--and despite--the violent displacement of Muslim legal sovereignty, Muslims were able to engage with and even champion Islamic law from inside the colonial judiciary. The outcome of their work was a paradoxical legal terrain that appeared legitimate to both Muslim practitioners and English colonizers. Sohaira Siddiqui challenges long-standing assumptions about Islamic law under British rule, the ways in which colonial power displaced preexisting traditions, and how local Muslim elites navigated the new institutions imposed upon them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf all the studies of Anglo-Muhammadan law, this is the most innovative and illuminating. In shifting the scholarly gaze from how colonial authorities fashioned this law to how Muslim legal practitioners of varied backgrounds engaged with it, Sohaira Siddiqui transforms our understanding of Islamic legal thought and practice under colonial rule.--Muhammad Qasim Zaman, author of \u003ci\u003eIslam in Pakistan: A History\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is the best book on Islamic law in South Asia in Western scholarship. Combining exceptionally sophisticated readings of Muslim scholarly texts with rigorous yet ingenious theorization of colonial power, Siddiqui fundamentally reorients our conception of the modern career of the Islamic legal tradition, in South Asia and beyond. A book of monumental significance that is as lyrically written as it is brilliant.\"--SherAli Tareen, author of \u003ci\u003ePerilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Siddiqui offers the first in-depth study of the crucial role that Indian Muslim lawyers, judges, and jurists played in shaping the colonial administration of Islamic law. Through penetrating analysis across multiple languages and genres, she shows how these figures interwove colonial and Islamic epistemologies in ways that remain deeply relevant today.\"--Julia Stephens, author of \u003ci\u003eGoverning Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSohaira Z. M. Siddiqui\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar. She is author of \u003ci\u003eLaw and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eLocating the Sharia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 263\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45531489337446,"sku":"9780520419223","price":184.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/LQl7qX6Y8h9780520419223.webp?v=1776682205","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/islamic-law-on-trial-contesting-colonial-power-in-british-india-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}