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

• Pubblicazione: Leiden : , : Brill, , 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxi, 263 pages)
• Disciplina: 340.5/9
• Soggetto topico: Islamic law - History; Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) - History; Customary law (Islamic law) - History
• Altri autori: LayishAharon <1933-2022.> ShahamRon
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-246) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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, fatwās , court decisions, judicial circulars, biographical dictionaries and chronics. The volume will be of special interest to historians, social scientists and lawyers working on Islamic and Israeli laws, and to those interested in gender studies, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Islamic cultures at large.
• Titolo autorizzato: Law, custom, and statute in the Muslim world
• ISBN: 1-281-40091-2; 9786611400910; 90-474-1130-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821049803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Islamic law and society ; ; 28.