| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 263 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Islamic law and society, 1384-1130 ; v. 28 |
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Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 28. 1384-1130
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| Contents |
The Mukhtaṣar of al-Khiraqī and its place in the formation of Ḥanbalī legal doctrine / Nimrod Hurvitz -- Law and custom in the Maghrib, 1475-1500: on the disinheritance of women / David S. Powers -- Women as expert witnesses in pre-modern Islamic courts / Ron Shaham -- Qāḍī, muftī and ruler: their roles in the development of Islamic law / Miriam Hoexter -- Ottoman qāḍīs in Damascus during the 16th-18th centuries / Michael Winter -- Patronage, intervention, and violence in the legal process in eighteenth-century Salonica and its province / Eyal Ginio -- Archaic forms of contract in Max Weber's Theories and in Arab and Somali customary law / Frank H. Stewart -- Provincial judges: the Shar̄ʻa judiciary of mid-twentieth-century Yemen / Brinkley Messick -- "All of Palestine is holy Muslim wafq land": a myth and its roots / Yitzhak Reiter -- Legal reform, interpretive communities and the quest for legitimacy: a contextual analysis of a legal circular / Ido Shahar |
| Summary |
Deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: shari'a custom, and statute. This book includes chapters that focus on one of these components, and that discuss the interplay between two or even all three of them. It offers a wide geographical coverage, from the Balkans to Yemen, and from Iraq to the Maghrib |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Layish, Aharon -- Bibliographie. idszbz |
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Layiš, Aharôn. swd |
| Subject |
Islamic law -- History
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Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) -- History
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Customary law (Islamic law) -- History
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RELIGION -- Islam -- Law.
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Customary law (Islamic law)
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Islamic law
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Justice, Administration of (Islamic law)
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Islamisches Recht
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Islamitisch recht.
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Islamisches Recht -- Geschichte -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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Islamitische wereld.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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History
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Layish, Aharon, 1933-2022
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Shaham, Ron.
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| ISBN |
9789047411307 |
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9047411307 |
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1281400912 |
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9781281400918 |
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9786611400910 |
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6611400915 |
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