Manichaean Delirium: Decolonizing the Judiciary and Islamic Renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985 (Islam in Africa)

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. -- Back Cover. 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 -- The Difficult Birth Of The Unified Judiciary. By Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [395]-410) And Indexes. 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 Wadis and Mahmoud M. Taha : towards an economy of vendetta and martyrdom Growing up in a Wadi's home : Hasan Al -Turabi and his theology of modernity The difficult birth of the unified judiciary. The book uses the concept of the “Manichaean” geography of the colony, popularized by Fanon, to account for the virulent Islamic renewal in Sudan. In focusing on the Sudan judiciary, characterized by an unrelenting rift between its civil and Sharia divisions, the book examines the various forces that sought to profit from these Manichaean resources.