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Law, Custom, and Statute in the Muslim World : Studies in Honor of Aharon Layish /

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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Layish, Aharon, 1933-2022, Shaham, Ron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Colección:Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 28.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.