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    Law, custom, and statute in the Muslim world : studies in honor of Aharon Layish / edited by Ron Shaham.

    Contributor(s): Layish, Aharon, 1933- | Shaham, RonMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Islamic law and society: v. 28.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007Description: xxxi, 263 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004154531; 9789004154537Subject(s): Islamic law -- History | Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) -- History | Customary law (Islamic law) -- History | Islamic law -- History | Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) -- History | Customary law (Islamic law) -- History | Droit islamique -- Histoire | Justice -- Administration (Droit islamique) -- Histoire | Droit coutumier (Droit islamique) -- Histoire | Customary law (Islamic law) | Islamic law | Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) | Islamitisch recht | Islamitische wereld | Layiš, Aharôn, 1933- | Islam | Recht | Layish, Aharon -- Bibliographie | Islamisches Recht -- 0 Gesamtdarstellung | Islamisches Recht -- Geschichte -- Aufsatzsammlung | Layiš, Aharôn | Islam -- Recht | GeschichteGenre/Form: History. | Biographie.DDC classification: 340.5/9 LOC classification: KBP50 | .L39 2007Other classification: 86.14 | BE 8630 | EH 5380 | PW 9400
    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: This collective volume, in honor of Aharon Layish, deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: shari'a 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 coverage of the volume is wide, from the Balkans to Yemen, and from Iraq to the Maghrib. The chapters are based on a variety of sources: fiqh literature, fatwas, court decisions, judicial circulars, biographical dictionaries and chronics. -- Back cover.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.

    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.

    This collective volume, in honor of Aharon Layish, deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: shari'a 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 coverage of the volume is wide, from the Balkans to Yemen, and from Iraq to the Maghrib. The chapters are based on a variety of sources: fiqh literature, fatwas, court decisions, judicial circulars, biographical dictionaries and chronics. -- Back cover.

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