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Shari’a of the Colony: Property, Paternity, and Proof in Morocco (1912-1965)

My project investigates the evolution of Islamic judicial practice in colonial and post-colonial courts of North Africa. My book research draws on original court records, state surveillance archives, and Islamic scholarship to reconstruct twentieth-century Islamic legal tradition in Morocco and its convergence with French colonial legalities. I pay special attention to court practice--namely, processes of determining “fact” or “truth” in judicial settings--as a pivotal domain of convergence between Islamic legal tradition and colonial governance. As postcolonial states worldwide continue making claim to religious law, this analysis foregrounds the fragmentation of Islamic legal tradition in postcolonial institutions. 

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