This article analyzes the impact of “modern” education on Shari’a practice and authority in Mogadishu, Somalia. More specifically, the article looks at the influence of graduates from modern Islamic universities on the Shari’a court movement in Mogadishu. The Shari’a Courts of Mogadishu, as they are now known, began to emerge in the Somali capital after the disintegration of the previous regime in early 1991. The Courts were formed in various neighborhoods in the city at different times throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. They were organized and run by neighborhood religious authorities and traditional elders. The Courts were thus independent of each other. When the Courts began to unify starting in 2003, a new group of elites educated in modern Islamic universities played an important role in their unification. This article looks at the education and socialization of these elites and how their rise to power changed Shari’a practice and authority.

本文分析了“现代”教育对索马里摩加迪沙的伊斯兰教法和权威的影响。更具体地说，本文着眼于现代伊斯兰大学毕业生对摩加迪沙伊斯兰教廷运动的影响。众所周知，摩加迪沙的伊斯兰教法法院是在1991年初前政权解体后开始出现在索马里首都的。法院在整个1990年代和早期的不同时期在城市的各个社区中成立。 2000年代。他们是由邻里宗教当局和传统长者组织和管理的。因此，法院彼此独立。当法院从2003年开始统一时，在现代伊斯兰大学中受过教育的一群新精英在他们的统一中发挥了重要作用。