Law and Colonial Cultures
Subtitle: Legal Regimes in World History, 14001900 (Studies in Comparative World History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521804141
Subjects: Jurisprudence & General Issues; World history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Legal Reference / Law Profession; International law; History: World; World - General; International; History / World; History : World - General; International law--History; Law / International; History; International relations and cu; International relations and culture
First sentence: "In the late fifteenth century, as Christians were extending their rule over the remaining pockets of Moorish dominion in the Iberian peninsula, a North African legal scholar named Al-Wansharishi issued a legal finding (fatwa) to address the situation of an"