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Author Casciarri, Barbara

Title Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan : Land, Courts and the Plurality of Practices
Published Boston : BRILL, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (343 pages)
Series Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Ser
Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Ser
Contents Intro; Contents; Foreword: Law in Sudan: An Anthropological Perspective; 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; Part 1 Land Issues: Dynamics of Appropriation and Legal Frameworks; Chapter 1 Land Alienation as a Legal, Political, Economic and Moral Issue in the Nile Valley of North Sudan
Chapter 2 Claiming Tribal Land Rights in a Global Context. Institutional Bricolage and Definitions of ʿurf among Pastoralists in Khartoum StateChapter 3 Ambiguous Land Ownership in al-Ṣalḥa, Omdurman: Land Grabbing or "Business as Usual"?; Chapter 4 Access to Land for Non-Muslims in Greater Khartoum: Disclosing Divergent Minority Models in International and Sudanese Laws; Chapter 5 Communal Customary Land Rights in Sudan: The Need for a Comprehensive Reform of Statutory Land Laws; Part 2 Statutory and Non-Statutory Courts: Principles and Practices for Dispute Settlement
Chapter 6 Dynamics of Dispute Management in South Gedaref State, Eastern Sudan: An Anthropological ApproachChapter 7 Voluntary Dispute Resolution Forums in al-Ḥilla al-Jadīda Squatter Settlement, Omdurman; Chapter 8 Conflict, Property, Mortgage and State Courts in Khartoum; Chapter 9 Customary Courts: Between Accommodating and Countering the Hegemony of the Laws of the State: The Case of Mayo; Chapter 10 Customary Law and Courts in the Context of Sudan's Legal Pluralism: Marginalized or Empowered under English Common Law and Islamic Law?; Annexes; Fieldwork Legal Documents
1.1 Map of the 42 registered sagiyya land plots of Kerma Balad in 1929 (photographed in the land office in Argo, 15 November 2016)2.1 Land possession certificate (shihādat ḥiyāza) for a rain-fed agricultural plot issued by the village Popular Committee, Timaim, 20 March 2005; 3.1 Land property certificate (shihādat milkiyya) issued by the Sudan Judiciary, Abu Seʿid, 2 May 2012.; 4.1 Initial application for land registration and building licence, Sudan Church of Christ, Medinat al-Bashir Gharib, July 1992; 4.2 Cadastral plan of Medinat al-Bashir Gharib, Local Planning Office, 1992
4.3 Complaint to Haj Yusif Locality (Maḥalliyya), Sudan Church of Christ, Medinat al-Bashir Gharib, 22 April 1996 & hand-written reply from the Director of the Mahalliya4.4 Application for land registration and building licence before the Head of the Popular Committee for Medinat al-Bashir Gharib, Sudan Church of Christ, Medinat al-Bashir Gharib, 27 May 2007; 4.5 Initial approval from the State Ministry of Guidance and Endowments & decision of non-objection from the Council of Appeals of the State Ministry of Social and Cultural Affairs, Khartoum, 31 August 2010
Notes 8.1 Road traffic accident complaint form, General Administration of Traffic, Khartoum, 28 June 2004
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Subject Islamic law -- Sudan
Customary law -- Sudan
Ethnological jurisprudence -- Sudan
Law and anthropology.
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Sudan
Customary law
Ethnological jurisprudence
Islamic law
Land tenure -- Law and legislation
Law and anthropology
Sudan
Form Electronic book
Author A. Babiker, Mohamed
ISBN 9789004362185
9004362185