An Islamic Court in Context [electronic resource] : An Ethnographic Study of Judicial Reasoning /
Stiles, E.author.
Stiles utilizes in-depth ethnographic study of judicial reasoning and litigant activity in Islamic family court in Zanzibar, Tanzania to draw new and important conclusions on how people understand and use Islamic legal ideas in marital disputes.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Translation; Glossary of Kiswahili Terms; Acknowledgments; One: Kadhi, Court, and Anthropologist; Two: Writing a Case: Court Actors and Court Procedure; Three: From Community to Court: Gendered Experience of Divorce; Four: A Wily Wife and a Headstrong Husband: Determining Intention; Five: Witness and Authority: Elders, Shehas, and Shaykhs; Six: Buying Divorce through Khuluu; Seven: Conclusion: The Court Is a Hospital; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Stiles utilizes in-depth ethnographic study of judicial reasoning and litigant activity in Islamic family court in Zanzibar, Tanzania to draw new and important conclusions on how people understand and use Islamic legal ideas in marital disputes.
Religion and sociology.
Astronomy.
Astrophysics.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Sociology of Religion.
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Social Aspects of Religion.