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Fluid Jurisdictions : Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia /

"Explores how the Arab diaspora's ambiguous embrace of European colonial authority in Southeast Asia extended colonial jurisdictions across the Indian Ocean from the late nineteenth century onwards"--

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Yahaya, Nurfadzilah, 1980- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Establishing Legal Domain
  • The Lure of Bureaucracy: British Administration of Islamic Law in the Straits Settlements
  • Surat Kuasa: Powers of Attorney Across the Indian Ocean
  • Resident Aliens: Exclusions of Arabs in the Netherlands Indies
  • Legal Incompetence: Jurisdictional Complications in the Netherlands Indies
  • Constructing the Index of Arabs: Colonial Imaginaries in Southeast Asia
  • The Limitations of Diasporic Religious Trusts.