Law, custom, and statute in the Muslim world
Subtitle: studies in honor of Aharon Layish
By: edited by Ron Shaham.
Contributors: Layish, Aharon, 1933-.; Shaham, Ron.
Series: Studies in Islamic law and society -- v. 28
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9789004154537
Subjects: Islamic law -- History.; Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) -- History.; Customary law (Islamic law) -- History.; Droit islamique -- Histoire.; Justice -- Administration (Droit islamique) -- Histoire.; Droit coutumier (Droit islamique) -- Histoire.; Islamitisch recht.; Islamitische wereld.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-246) and index.
Table of contents: value: The Mukhtaṣar of al-Khiraqī and its place in the formation of Ḥanbalī legal doctrine / Nimrod Hurvitz; value: Law and custom in the Maghrib, 1475-1500: on the disinheritance of women / David S. Powers; value: Women as expert witnesses in pre-modern Islamic courts / Ron Shaham; value: Qāḍī, muftī and ruler: their roles in the development of Islamic law / Miriam Hoexter; value: Ottoman qāḍīs in Damascus during the 16th-18th centuries / Michael Winter; value: Patronage, intervention, and violence in the legal process in eighteenth-century Salonica and its province / Eyal Ginio; value: Archaic forms of contract in Max Weber's Theories and in Arab and Somali customary law / Frank H. Stewart; value: Provincial judges: the Shar̄ʻa judiciary of mid-twentieth-century Yemen / Brinkley Messick; value: "All of Palestine is holy Muslim wafq land": a myth and its roots / Yitzhak Reiter; value: Legal reform, interpretive communities and the quest for legitimacy: a contextual analysis of a legal circular / Ido Shahar.