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Entangled Domains offers a comprehensive study of the intricate relationships between imperial governance, legal frameworks, and religious institutions in Northern Nigeria. Rabiat Akande traces how colonial administration established complex legal pluralism by incorporating Islamic and customary law alongside British legal systems, creating enduring tensions and negotiations that persist today.
The book examines how these three domains—empire, law, and religion—became deeply entangled through processes of colonization, indigenization, and post-colonial state formation. Akande demonstrates how religious communities navigated and adapted to changing legal landscapes, and how legal institutions attempted to regulate religious practice. By focusing on Northern Nigeria as a case study, the work illuminates broader questions about law’s role in managing religious diversity and the legacy of colonial legal engineering.
Essential reading for scholars of African law, religious studies, colonial history, and legal anthropology, this work challenges conventional understandings of the relationship between law and religion in post-colonial contexts.
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