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  • Chapter Two - Contesting Shari‘a: Colonial Legal Politics

  • from Part I - Colonialism and Its Aftermath, 1884–1991
  • Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Book:
    Shari‘a, Inshallah
    Published online:
    13 May 2021
    Print publication:
    27 May 2021, pp 65-109

  • Summary

    On a cool afternoon in Hargeisa, I met with a prominent sheikh. As we shared a pot of tea while sitting cross-legged together on a large rug in his office, I mentioned I had come to see him for a book I was hoping to write about law in Somalia and Somaliland. He nodded, raised a corner of his lips into half a smile, and began by discussing his grandfather. The sheikh called his grandfather “the most prominent sheikh in [colonial] Somaliland … famous and very rich.” He had sired more than seventy sons and daughters from many wives, I was told.