Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Orthography -- Glossary -- Introduction Decolonization: Toward a Musical Approach to Religion -- Chapter One In the Shoes of the Colonized -- Chapter Two A Tale of Two Courts: The Sharia of Allah and the Custom of the Patriarch -- Chapter Three President Ismail al-Azhari, 1965-1969: The Politics of Moral Injury -- Chapter Four Nimerie's Instant Justice: Tongue of God and the Rogue -- Chapter Five The Qadis and Mahmoud M. Taha: Toward an Economy of Vendetta and Martyrdom -- Chapter Six Growing Up in a Qadi's Home: Hasan al-Turabi and his Theology of Modernity -- Conclusion The Difficult Birth of the Unified Judiciary -- Bibliography -- Index.