Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan

Barbara Casciarri, (Ph.D. 1997, EHESS, Paris) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University Paris 8, France, and co-editor of Multidimensional Change in Sudan 1989-2011, (Oxford/New York 2015). She has conducted fieldwork on economic and political anthropology in Sudan and Morocco. Mohamed A. Babiker, (Ph.D. 2004, Nottingham, UK) is Associate Professor of International Law, Founding Director of the Human Rights Centre and Head of International and Comparative Law at the University of Khartoum. He is the co-editor of Constitution Making and Human Rights Protection in South Sudan (London 2018).

"The authors’ intention in writing the papers included in this volume is stated to be the exploration of property phenomena; furthermore, the intension to offer an ethnographic description of the practices linked to them. Obviously trying to balance between the impact of culture and the legal environment within which the legal praxis is applied, this is a research about the legal practices in an overwhelmingly Muslim environment - not the depiction of an ‘Islamic’ culture observed through the prism of law. This is what makes this study anthropological, as far as I am concerned. Valuable tool for students of law and (of course) anthropologists." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 28 (2019)"Cet ouvrage, de forme très soignée, extrêmement riche et varié dans ses ethnographies de pratiques saisies sur le vif et très homogène dans ses approches, constitue non seulement un apport marquant à l’anthropologie juridique du Soudan (pays passionnant, ne serait-ce qu’au vu des événements récents), mais encore un modèle de collaboration entre anthropologues et juristes."- François Ireton, CNRS, Paris, in: Cahiers d'etudes africaines 240 (2020)