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Iza R. Hussin , Basil Watfa
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The East India Company’s efforts to govern Bengal laid the groundwork for the British understanding of Islamic law, Muslim governance, and the manner in which Islam might be handled by the British Empire.
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There is the Islamic law of the shari’a, a matter for the judges to decide; but there is also the Islamic law of the community, passed down from their grandmothers. There is the Islamic law the state applies, but there is also the Islamic law that men and women call upon to critique the actions of the state. “Islamic law,” however and by whomever it is invoked, seems to carry the shades of all these meanings and the gray areas between them.
The politics of Islamic law in the formative periods of the modern Muslim state indicate that the transformation of Islamic law from authoritative to authoritarian arose from the conjunction of the rise of formalist visions of Islamic law (made necessary and possible by the intervention of the colonial state through treaties, trials and texts) with the growing sense among Muslim elites of the need to protect the shrinking jurisdiction allowed to Islamic law.
