Law, custom, and statute in the Muslim world : studies in honor of Aharon Layish /
This collective volume, in honor of Aharon Layish, deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: sharīʿa , custom, and statute. Some chapters focus on one of these components, other discuss the interplay between two or even all three of them. The geographical cov...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
Series:
Studies in Islamic law and society,
v. 28
Studies in Islamic Law and Society
28.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004223028.
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Call Number: KBP50 .L39 2007
- Preliminary material /
- R. Shaham
- Chapter One. The Mukhtaíar of Al-Khiraqī and its place in the formation of Ḥanbalī legal doctrine /
- Nimrod Hurvitz
- Chapter Two. Law and custom in the Maghrib, 1475-1500: On the disinheritance of women /
- David S. Powers
- Chapter Three. Women as expert witnesses in pre-modern islamic courts /
- Ron Shaham
- Chapter Four. Qāḍī, Muftī and ruler: Their roles in the development of islamic law /
- Miriam Hoexter
- Chapter Five. Ottoman Qāḍīs in DAMASCUS IN THE 16TH-18TH centuries /
- Michael Winter
- Chapter Six. Patronage, intervention and violence in the legal process in eighteenth-century Salonica and its province /
- Eyal Ginio
- Chapter Seven. Archaic forms of contract in Max Weber's theories and in Arab and Somali customary law /
- Frank H. Stewart
- Chapter Eight. Provincial judges: the Sharī'a judiciary of mid-twentieth-century Yemen /
- Brinkley Messick
- Chapter Nine. "All of Palestine is holy Muslim Waqf Land": A myth and its roots /
- Yitzhak Reiter
- Chapter Ten. Legal reform, interpretive communities and the quest for legitimacy: A contextual analysis of a legal circular /
- Ido Shahar
- List of contributors /
- R. Shaham
- Bibliography /
- R. Shaham
- Index /
- R. Shaham.