The Shari’a Courts of Mogadishu: Beyond “African Islam” and “Islamic Law”
Written by Ahmed Ibrahim
This dissertation, based on a year and eight months of fieldwork, is a historical ethnography of a Shari‘a-based movement which appeared in Mogadishu, Somalia within a year after the complete disintegration of the central government in 1991.
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