Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Layish, Aharon

Title Shari'a and Custom in Libyan Tribal Society : an Annotated Translation of Decisions from the Shari?a Courts of Adjabiya and Kufra
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2004

Copies

Description 1 online resource (373 pages)
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Shari'a and Custom in Tribal Society; THE DOCUMENTS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND ANNOTATION; 1. Personal Status and Succession; 2. Homicide, Bodily Injury and Defamation of Women's Reputation (55-60); 3. Slaves and Manumitted Slaves (docs. 61-62); 4. Property, Obligations and Contracts (docs. 63-68); 5. Evidence and Court Procedure (docs. 69-70); 6. Qadis' Legal Opinions (docs. 71-72); APPENDICES; Bibliography; Glossary of Arabic Legal Terms and Phrases; Name Index of Qadis', Na'ibs and Other Judicial Clerks; General Index
"Orality, Language, and Culture in Arabic Juridical Discourse" by Alexander Borg
Summary This volume comprising annotated translations of court decisions focuses on the interaction between the shari?a and tribal law as reflected in 72 protocols pertaining to personal status, homicide and bodily injury, etc. issued by Libyan shari?a courts approximately during the period 1930-1970
Notes Print version record
Subject Islamic law -- Libya -- Kufra Oases -- Cases
Islamic law -- Libya -- Ajdābiya -- Cases
Customary law -- Libya -- Cases
Customary law.
Islamic law.
Libya.
Libya -- Ajdābiya.
Libya -- Kufra Oases.
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Borg, Alexander
ISBN 9781433704383
1433704382