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The art is long : on the sacred disease and the scientific tradition /
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This volume examines the fifth-century medical treatise, On the Sacred Disease , as a sophistic speech, and considers its position within the scientific tradition. The first part concerns conceptions of science, magic, and medicine; and establishes the antiquity of medicine as a specialized skill. The latter part analyzes the treatise in light of sophistic oratory, and explores its reception of traditional beliefs. This analysis shows that traditional beliefs, competition, and rhetoric contributed to the intellectual tradition of science. Traditional views are shown to have influenced ideas concerning physiology, and disease aetiology and transmission, Competition, expressed in the terms of sophistic debate, sharpened the author's arguments. On the Sacred Disease is important evidence for the influence on fifth-century medicine of both sophistic rhetoric and of older medical traditions.
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1 online resource (viii, 171 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004377288 :
0925-1421 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Beyond the Code : Muslim Family Law and the Shari'a Judiciary in the Palestinian West Bank /
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Legal issues of personal status - including those implicating women's rights - continue to be a focal area of shari'a judicial practice in the Muslim world. Changing ideas of marriage, relations between the spouses, divorce, and the rights of divorcees and widows challenge the courts around the Arab world. In this context, the areas that came under the Palestinian Authority in 1994 command particular attention: the particular political and socio-economic circumstances that surround Palestine's progress toward full statehood have created a remarkable crucible for the synthesis of a new family law in the Arab world. This rigorous study of the interpretation and application of personal status law in the Palestinian West Bank (and to a lesser extent in the Gaza Strip) is the most extensive yet attempted. It presents a systematic analysis of the application of Islamic family law in nearly 10,000 marriage contracts, 1000 deeds of talaq (unilateral divorce) or khul' (divorce with renunciation), and 2000 judicial rulings over a time span that includes Jordanian rule and Israeli military occupation, updating this with material from the beginning of the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority. Taken into account are the sources of law used in the shari'a courts of the West Bank: the successive codes of family law (the Jordanian Law of Personal Status 1976 and its predecessor the Jordanian Law of Family Rights 1951), and traditional Hanafi rules and texts, along with commentaries by prominent contemporary shari'a scholars and Appeal Court decisions - as well as the amendments and modifications being sought by civil society actors (notably women's groups) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as in Jordan.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004480698
9789041188595
al-Jūbah : mashrūʻ Wādī al-Jūbah al-āthārī /
: "Taḥt riʻāyat al-Muʼssasah al-Amrīkīyah li-dirāsat al-insān bi-al-ishtirāk maʻa al-Maʻāhid al-ʻilmaīyah al-ātīyah al-madrasah al-Amrīkīyah lil-Abḥāth al-sharqīyah, wa Matḥaf bībūn, wa Jāmiʻat Hārfārd, wa-Matḥaf Jāmiʻat bansalfānīyā." : 2, 113 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.