Anthropology of law in Muslim Sudan. Land, courts and the plurality of practices / / Barbara Casciarri; Mohamed Babiker.

• Superior document: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society ; 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Casciarri, Barbara.; Babiker, Mohamed.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society 07.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (343 pages).

Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society. It is the outcome of the international research program ANDROMAQUE ( Anthropologie du Droit dans les Mondes Musulmans Africains et Asiatiques ), funded by the French ANR ( Agence National de la Recherche ) between 2011 and 2014. Crossing two disciplinary perspectives, anthropology and law, the present volume contains original fieldwork data on contemporary urban and rural Sudan. Focusing on two major domains, land property and courts, several case studies demonstrate the relevance of an approach based on “legal practices” to underline, first, the plurality and hybridity of law systems and the relative role of the Islamic reference in Sudanese society, and, secondly, the reshaping of legal behaviors and norms after the breaking point of South Sudan's independence in 2011. Contributors are: Zahir M. Abdal-Kareem; Azza A. Abdel Aziz; Musa A. Abdul-Jalil; Munzoul M.A. Assal; Mohamed A. Babiker; Yazid Ben Hounet; Barbara Casciarri; Baudoin Dupret; Philippe Gout; Enrico Ille.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Law in Sudan: An Anthropological Perspective / Baudoin Dupret -- Acknowledgements -- Transliteration of Arabic Terms -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- General Map of Sudan and Greater Khartoum. -- Introduction: The Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan / Barbara Casciarri -- Land Issues: Dynamics of Appropriation and Legal Frameworks -- Land Alienation as a Legal, Political, Economic and Moral Issue in the Nile Valley of North Sudan / Enrico Ille -- Claiming Tribal Land Rights in a Global Context. Institutional Bricolage and Definitions of ʿurf among Pastoralists in Khartoum State / Barbara Casciarri -- Ambiguous Land Ownership in al-Ṣalḥa, Omdurman: Land Grabbing or “Business as Usual”? / Munzoul M.A. Assal -- Access to Land for Non-Muslims in Greater Khartoum: Disclosing Divergent Minority Models in International and Sudanese Laws / Philippe Gout -- Communal Customary Land Rights in Sudan: The Need for a Comprehensive Reform of Statutory Land Laws / Mohamed A. Babiker -- Statutory and Non-Statutory Courts: Principles and Practices for Dispute Settlement -- Dynamics of Dispute Management in South Gedaref State, Eastern Sudan: An Anthropological Approach / Zahir M. Abdal-Kareem -- Voluntary Dispute Resolution Forums in al-Ḥilla al-Jadīda Squatter Settlement, Omdurman / Musa A. Abdul-Jalil -- Conflict, Property, Mortgage and State Courts in Khartoum / Yazid Ben Hounet -- Customary Courts: Between Accommodating and Countering the Hegemony of the Laws of the State: The Case of Mayo / Azza A. Aziz Abdel -- Customary Law and Courts in the Context of Sudan’s Legal Pluralism: Marginalized or Empowered under English Common Law and Islamic Law? / Mohamed A. Babiker -- Back Matter -- Annex: Fieldwork Legal Documents -- Annex: Excerpts from Sudan’s Statutory Land Laws 1900–2015 / Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker -- Index.