| Description |
168 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Law and Islam in the Middle East / Daisy Hilse Dwyer -- Women and criminal justice in Egypt / Safia K. Mohsen -- Litigant strategies in an Islamic court in Jordan / Richard T. Antoun -- Literacy and the law / Brinkley Messick -- Islam and the struggle over state law in Turkey / June Starr -- Reinstating Islamic criminal law in Libya / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Legal postulates in flux / Michael M.J. Fischer -- Working the law / Suad Joseph |
| Analysis |
Islam |
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Middle East |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
"This volume grew out of a seminar ... held at Columbia University in 1980 under the auspices of the Middle East Institute of the Columbia University School of International Affairs and the Parker School of Comparative Law of the Columbia School of Law"--P. [vii] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Islamic law -- Arab countries.
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Islamic law -- Middle East.
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| Author |
Dwyer, Daisy Hilse.
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| LC no. |
8901008545 |
| ISBN |
0897891511 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) |
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