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  • Chapter Four - Restoring Shari‘a: Islamic Courts in a Shattered Somalia

  • from Part II - Struggles of a Broken Nation, 1991–2021
  • Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Book:
    Shari‘a, Inshallah
    Published online:
    13 May 2021
    Print publication:
    27 May 2021, pp 159-207

  • Summary

    In 2013, I traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to meet a senior government minister from Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG). He had recently left Mogadishu and I asked him to reflect on his years working to rebuild Somalia’s government, his successes and failures, the country’s legal development, and what the Islamic Courts Union and a series of failed international humanitarian interventions had left behind. He spoke about his country’s legacies of colonialism, violence, democracy, and authoritarian rule; his political strategies; and his struggle to survive attacks from militants who claimed shari‘a as their inspiration.