TY - BOOK ID - 85913165 TI - Shari'a, inshallah : finding god in Somali legal politics PY - 2021 SN - 1108965989 9781108967280 110896706X 1108967280 1108832784 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Islamic influences. KW - Administration of justice KW - Courts KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85913165 AB - Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different story: for nearly 150 years, the Somali people have embraced shari'a, commonly translated as Islamic law, in the struggle for national identity and human rights. Lawyers, community leaders, and activists throughout the Horn of Africa have invoked God to oppose colonialism, resist dictators, expel warlords, and to fight for gender equality - all critical steps on the path to the rule of law. Shari'a, Inshallah traces the most dramatic moments of legal change, political collapse, and reconstruction in Somalia and Somaliland. Massoud upends the conventional account of secular legal progress and demonstrates instead how faith in a higher power guides people toward the rule of law. ER -