Law, custom, and statute in the Muslim world : studies in honor of Aharon Layish /
edited by Ron Shaham.
- xxxi, 263 páginas
- Studies in Islamic law and society, v. 28 1384-1130 ; .
Incluye bibliografía.
The Mukhtasar of al-Khiraqī and its place in the formation of Hanbalī 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 -- Qadi, muftī and ruler: their roles in the development of Islamic law / Miriam Hoexter -- Ottoman qadis 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 Sharia 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.