The office of qāḍī in Dār Fūr
A Preliminary Inquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2800835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R S O''Fahey, R S O’fahey (corresponding author), R S O'Fahey |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 110-124 |
| Publication date | 1977-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x00040441 |
| OpenAlex | W1489112470 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
A written law and a separate if not independent judiciary were among the most distinctive innovations brought by Islam to the Sudanic region. The history of the reception of thesharī'aand the institutions associated with it, of its modifications of the local customary law and of the changes wrought upon it by the same customary law may help to provide a framework for more general discussions of the process of islamization within Africa. The main purpose of this paper is to describe the history of the office ofqāḍī, or judicial official, in the Dār Fūr sultanate, which occupied what is now the westernmost province of the Democratic Republic of the Sudan between the mid-seventeenth century and 1916. Thus I am not so much concerned with the content of the law, whether customary or Islamic, administered within the sultanate as with who administered it
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |