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Islamic Law in Africa

In many parts of Africa three different systems of laws are concurrently applied – the imported "Colonial" law, the indigenous customary law and Islamic law. In some countries the customary and the Islamic law are kept separate and distinct, while in others they are fused into a single system. This volume represents a unique survey of the extent to which Islamic law is in fact applied in those parts of East and West Africa which were at one time under British administration. It examines the relevant legislation and case law, much of which has never appeared in any Law Reports; the judges and courts which apply it and the problems to which its application give rise.

the Sultans of both Zanzibar and Muscat as worldlings who have forsaken the
true path for one of compromise; it is only the Imam who rules the interior of '
Uman from Nazwa who has maintained the law in its purity, including the baddl
punishments. The Ibadis, moreover, still have mujmha'ds' in 'Uman and North
Africa, although there are none in Zanzibar: and these may still use reasoning (
nfy) to form their own deductions from the law. In regard to the science of
Traditions, too, they ...