Law, Custom, and Statute in the Muslim World : Studies in Honor of Aharon Layish / edited by Ron Shaham.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.

The Mukhtaṣar of al-Khiraqī and its place in the formation of Ḥanbalī legal doctrine / Nimrod Hurvitz -- Law and custom in the Maghrib, 1475-1500: on the disinheritance of women / David S. Powers -- Women as expert witnesses in pre-modern Islamic courts / Ron Shaham -- Qāḍī, muftī and ruler: their roles in the development of Islamic law / Miriam Hoexter -- Ottoman qāḍīs in Damascus during the 16th-18th centuries / Michael Winter -- Patronage, intervention, and violence in the legal process in eighteenth-century Salonica and its province / Eyal Ginio -- Archaic forms of contract in Max Weber's Theories and in Arab and Somali customary law / Frank H. Stewart -- Provincial judges: the Shar̄ʻa judiciary of mid-twentieth-century Yemen / Brinkley Messick -- "All of Palestine is holy Muslim wafq land": a myth and its roots / Yitzhak Reiter -- Legal reform, interpretive communities and the quest for legitimacy: a contextual analysis of a legal circular / Ido Shahar.

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Deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: shari'a custom, and statute. This book includes chapters that focus on one of these components, and that discuss the interplay between two or even all three of them. It offers a wide geographical coverage, from the Balkans to Yemen, and from Iraq to the Maghrib.

English.

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