Manichaean delirium : : decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985 / / by Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim.

• Superior document: Islam in Africa, v. 7
• Author: Ibrahim, Abd Allah Ali.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Islam in Africa ; v. 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (447 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The book investigates the Islamic renewal in Sudan as symptomatic of a larger postcolonial predicament. It investigates the dual judiciary, dubbed “Manichaean” by Fanon, whose laws have been at the center of this renewal. This colonial organization of the institution was characterized by a conflict between its dominant Civil Division and the subordinated Sharia Division. The book analyzes the political forces that converged since the independence of the country (1956) to profit from the resources of this dual judiciary.

Table of Contents

In the shoes of the colonized -- A tale of two courts : the Sharia of Allah and the custom of the patriarch -- President Ismail Al-Azhari, 1965-1969 : the politics of moral injury -- Nimerie's instant justice : tongue of God and the rogue -- The Qadis and Mahmoud M. Taha : toward an economy of vendetta and martyrdom -- Growing up in a Qadi's home : Hasan Al -Turabi and his theology of modernity.