Fluid Jurisdictions (English, Nurfadzilah Yahaya)

About the Book

This wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book tells the story of the Arab diaspora within the context of British and Dutch colonialism, unpacking the community's ambiguous embrace of European colonial authority in Southeast Asia . In Fluid Jurisdictions , Nurfadzilah Yahaya looks at colonial legal infrastructure and discusses how it impacted, and was impacted by, Islam and ethnicity. But more important, she follows the actors who used this fra…

ISBN: 9781501750878