Islamic law
Subtitle: social and historical contexts
By: edited by Aziz Al-Azmeh.
Contributors: ʻAẓmah, ʻAzīz.; University of Exeter. Dept. of Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Islamic law -- History -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Papers presented at a colloquium held at the Dept. of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Univ. of Exeter, September 1985.
Table of contents: title: The family, inheritance, and Islam / Martha Mundy; title: Qānūn and sharīʻa in the Ottoman context / Richard Repp; title: Islamic law as a source for the development of a comparative jurisprudence / Enid Hill; title: Institutions of justice in Fatimid Egyot / Amin Haji; title: The transformation of the Muslim court system in colonial Algeria / Allan Christelow; title: Islamic laws in the Sudan / Safiya Safwat; title: Islamic legal theory and the appropriation of reality / Aziz al-Azmeh.