Dispensing justice in Islam : Qadis and their judgements / edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters, and David S. Powers.
2006
KBP1610 .D57 2005 (Map It)
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Title
Dispensing justice in Islam : Qadis and their judgements / edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters, and David S. Powers.
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Call Number
KBP1610 .D57 2005
Former Call Number
Islam 710 D632 2006
ISBN
9004140670 (alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 591 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)60349031
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [543]-569) and index.
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Table of Contents
Ch. 1
Qadis and their courts : an historical survey / Muhammad Khalid Masud Rudolph Peters David S. Powers
1
Ch. 2
Settling litigation without judgment : the importance of a Hukm in Qadi cases of Mamluk Jerusalem / Christian Muller
47
Ch. 3
A new judge for Aintab : the shifting legal environment of a sixteenth-century Ottoman court / Leslie Peirce
71
Ch. 4
Broken Edda and marital mistakes : two recent disputes from an Islamic Court in Zanzibar / Erin Stiles
95
Ch. 5
Fairness and law in an Indonesian court / John R. Bowen
117
Ch. 6
The practice of judging : the Egyptian judiciary at work in a personal status case / Baudouin Dupret
143
Ch. 7
The constitution and the principles of Islamic normativity against the rules of Fiqh : a judgment of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt / Baber Johansen
169
Ch. 8
Commercial litigation in a Shari'a Court / Brinkley Messick
195
Ch. 9
The re-Islamization of criminal law in Northern Nigeria and the judiciary : the Safiyyatu Hussaini case / Rudolph Peters
219
Ch. 10
Law in the marketplace : Istanbul, 1730-1840 / Engin Deniz Akarh
245
Ch. 11
On judicial hierarchy in the Ottoman Empire : the case of Sofia from the seventeenth to the beginning of the eighteenth century / Rossitsa Gradeva
271
Ch. 12
Islamic judicial councils and their sociopolitical contexts : a trans-Saharan comparison / Allan Christelow
299
Ch. 13
Ill-treated women seeking divorce : the Qur'anic two arbiters and judicial practice among the Malikis in al-Andalus and North Africa / Maribel Fierro
323
Ch. 14
The award of Mata' in the early Muslim courts / Muhammad Khalid Masud
349
Ch. 15
Four cases relating to women and divorce in al-Andalus and the Maghrib, 1100-1500 / David S. Powers
383
Ch. 16
The application of Islamic law in the Ottoman courts in Damascus : the case of the rental of Waqf land / Abdul-Karim Rafeq
411
Ch. 17
The Waqf in court : lawsuits over religious endowments in Ottoman Aleppo / Stefan Knost
427
Ch. 18
Shopping for legal forums : Christians and family law in modern Egypt / Ron Shaham
451
Ch. 19
Twelve court cases on the application of penal law under the almoravids / Delfina Serrano
473
Ch. 20
Shahadat Nagl in the judicial practice in modern Libya / Aharon Layish
495
Ch. 21
Pakistan's evidence order ("Qanun-i-Shahadat"), 1984 : General Zia's anti-Islamization coup / Lucy Carroll
517