COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- SERIES-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE RULE OF LAW AND ITS IMBRICATIONS - JUSTICE IN THE MAKING -- PROLOGUE: THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO -- ANTECEDENTS TO THE ICC - THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, RWANDA, AND SIERRA LEONE -- Yugoslavia: Milosevic and the ICTY -- Rwanda: Akayesu and the ICTR -- Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor and the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- THE ICC AND COMPETING NOTIONS OF JUSTICE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA -- FICTIONS AND SPECTERS OF JUSTICE -- Interrogating Legal Pluralism, Mapping Justice through Power -- Incommensurabities in Religious Truth Regimes -- CONTEXT AND SCOPE OF THE BOOK -- Modeling the Spread of "Human Rights" and the "Rule of Law" -- Limits to the Models -- Challenges to the Fiction of the Rule of Law as Supreme Justice -- U.S. Contestations of the ICC -- ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- PART ONE: THE PRODUCTION OF LIBERALIST TRUTH REGIMES -- CHAPTER 1 CONSTRUCTING FICTIONS: MORAL ECONOMIES IN THE TRIBUNALIZATION OF VIOLENCE -- FROM COLONIALISM TO THE NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA -- MORAL ECONOMIES AND PRAXEOLOGY -- EMPOWERING "JUSTICE," JUSTIFYING POWER -- Ontologies of ICC Notions of Criminal Responsibility -- THE COSTS OF "JUSTICE" TALK -- INTERNATIONAL NGOS AND THE COSMOPOLITAN ELITE -- NGOS ON THE RISE: THE COALITION FOR THE ICC -- High Stakes and Big Ideas: The Rule of Law in Morocco -- The CICC and State Constitutions: Rome Statute Implementation in Africa -- DEVELOPING AFRICA - FROM THE OUTSIDE IN -- Extraction and the "Public Good" -- Reconfigurations of State Practices -- Partnering for Public Services -- Mortgaging Africa's Future: The Fine Print on Loans -- NGOs Ascendant: Who Sets the Agenda? -- Donor Capitalism to the Rescue? -- CONCLUSION.

CHAPTER 2 CRAFTING THE VICTIM, CRAFTING THE PERPETRATOR: NEW SPACES OF POWER, NEW SPECTERS OF JUSTICE -- CHILD SOLDIERS: SPECTERS OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE -- THE ICC AND THE TRIBUNALIZATION OF AFRICAN VIOLENCE -- THE DRC, THE ICC, AND THOMAS LUBANGA DYILO: HISTORIES OF VIOLENCE -- COMMAND RESPONSIBILITY AND THE SPECTRALITY OF JUSTICE -- THE CASE OF THOMAS LUBANGA DYILO AND THE SPECTERS OF THE VIOLATED -- VICTIMS AND THE MORAL ECONOMY OF INTERVENTION: ICC RULES AND STRATEGIES -- HUMANITARIANISM AND THE PERFORMANCE OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE -- WHY AFRICA? -- Steps Toward a Critical Transnational Legal Pluralism -- CHAPTER 3 MULTIPLE SPACES OF JUSTICE: UGANDA, THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, AND THE POLITICS OF INEQUALITY -- PROLOGUE: REINSTATING CULTURAL COMPLEXITIES -- INTERNATIONAL "JUSTICE" VERSUS SPIRITUALLY DRIVEN RECONCILIATION AS JUSTICE -- THE UGANDAN AMNESTY ACT AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF COMPLEMENTARITY IN ACTION -- AMNESTY AND THE "TRADITIONAL" ACHOLI PATH FOLLOWED BY UGANDA -- CHALLENGES AND CONTESTATIONS TO THE ICC IN UGANDA -- In "the Interests of Justice": The Rights of Victims versus the Rights of the State -- THE OBLIGATION OF STATES TO UPHOLD INTERNATIONAL LAW VERSUS THEIR RIGHT TO RESOLVE DISPUTES IN THEIR CHOSEN WAY -- Victims, the State of Exception, and the New "New Sovereignty" -- PART TWO: THE RELIGIOUS POLITICS OF INCOMMENSURABILITY -- CHAPTER 4 "RELIGIOUS" AND "SECULAR" MICROPRACTICES: THE ROOTS OF SECULAR LAW, THE POLITICAL CONTENT OF RADICAL ISLAMIC BELIEFS -- THE ICC: A MOVEMENT IN THE MAKING -- RADICAL ISLAM AND ITS SPACES OF POWER -- LEGAL PLURALISM AND BEYOND -- SECULARISM, ISLAM, AND INTERPRETING "APPROPRIATE" VIOLENCE -- The Response of Religious Revivalism -- Islam and Sharia, Duties and Obligations -- "Intention" and the Concept of al-Khuruj -- The ICC and the Concept of Intention.

Competing Spheres of Authority and Power -- Secular versus Nonsecular Forms of Violence -- GENEALOGIES OF "SECULARISM" AND THE POLITICS OF CONSTITUTIVE POWER -- CHAPTER 5 "THE HAND WILL GO TO HELL": ISLAMIC LAW AND THE CRAFTING OF THE SPIRITUAL SELF -- SHARIA-IZATION IN NIGERIA, POST-1999 -- MACROHISTORICAL POLITICS AND THEIR ALIGNMENTS WITH POWER -- The Early Spread of Islam in Precolonial Nigeria -- Changes in Colonial Governance: Vernacularizing the Judicial Reach of Courts -- The New Nigeria: Secular Democracy and Sunni Islamic Revivalism -- POLITICS, AGENCY, AND THE CRIME OF ZINA -- VERNACULAR JUSTICE: RELIGIOUS POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF FAITH -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 6 ISLAMIC SHARIA AT THE CROSSROADS: HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGES AND THE STRATEGIC TRANSLATION OF VERNACULAR IMAGINARIES -- SAFIYA HUSSAINI AND AMINA LAWAL -- CASE STUDY: AMINA LAWAL -- ENGAGING SHARIA, MANAGING PUNISHMENT -- Cultural Logics of the Sharia -- Tenets of Punishment -- "Secular" Genealogies of Acceptable Punishment -- GOOD-WILLED DEMOCRACY: FEMINIST NGOS AND THE ERRORS OF PROTEST -- VERNACULAR KNOWLEDGES: NIGERIAN CONSTITUTIONALISM FROM THE GROUND UP -- ISLAMIC REFORM IN RELATION TO OTHER KINDS OF REFORM -- VIOLENCE AS CENTRAL TO THE PRACTICE OF THE EVERYDAY -- EPILOGUE: TOWARD A CRITICAL TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL PLURALISM -- NOTES -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.