Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500

Informationen zum Autor David S. Powers is currently Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Studies in Qur'an and Hadith: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance (1986)! and co-editor of Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and the Fatwas (1996)! and Editor of the journal Islamic Law and Society. Klappentext An analysis of Islamic law as it was imposed on the people of the medieval Maghrib. Zusammenfassung In this 2002 book! David Powers analyses the application of Islamic law through cases which took place in the medieval Maghrib. The source for these disputes are fatwas issued by the muftis! which the author uses to situate each case in its historical context and to interpret the legal principles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Kadijustiz or Qadi-justice? A paternity dispute from fourteenth-century Morocco; 2. From Almohadism to Malikism: the case of al-Haskuri, the Mocking Jurist, c. 712?/1312?; 3. A riparian dispute in the Middle Atlas mountains, c. 683?4/1285?21; 4. Conflicting conceptions of property in Fez, 741?6/1340?23; 5. Preserving the Prophet's honor: Sharifism, Sufism and Malikism in Tlemcen, 843/1439; 6. On modes of judicial reasoning: two fatwas on Tawlij, c. 880/1475; Conclusion: the Mufti.

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• Authors: David S. Powers, David S. (Cornell University Powers
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521120593
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12059-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law