The development of Islamic law and society in the Maghrib
Subtitle: Qāḍīs, Muftīs and family law
By: David S. Powers
Series: Variorum collected studies series; Collected studies
Publisher: Ashgate Variorum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409403708
Subjects: Domestic relations; History; Inheritance and succession (Islamic law); Divorce (Islamic law); Trusts and trustees (Islamic law)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Legal consultation (futyā) in medieval Spain and North Africa; title: On judicial review in Islamic law; title: Parents and their minor children : familial politics in the middle Maghrib in the eighth/fourteenth century; title: From the Miʻyār of al-Wansharīsī to the New Miʻyār of al-Wazzānī : continuity and change (with Etty Terem); title: Women and divorce in the Islamic West : three cases; title: Four cases relating to women and divorce in al-Andalus and the Maghrib, 1100-1500; title: The Islamic inheritance system : a socio-historical approach; title: Law and custom in the Maghrib, 1475-1500 : on the disinheritance of women; title: The Maliki family endowment : legal norms and social practices; title: A court case from fourteenth-century North Africa; title: Fatwās as sources for legal and social history : a dispute over endowment revenues from fourteenth-century Fez; title: Orientalism, colonialism, and legal history : the attack on Muslim family endowments in Algeria and India.