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Author:   Camilo Gomez-Rivas
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.468kg
ISBN:  

9789004277809

ISBN 10:   9004277803
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   21 November 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Introduction 2 Historical and Historiographical Background 3 The Mufti 4 Urban Development of the Far Maghrib 5 Maliki Law and Custom in the Far Maghrib 6 The Development of the Network and Its Activity as Seen through al-Wansharisi's Mi'yar and Qadi Iyad's Tartib al-Madarik 7 Book Structure 1 Fatwas to Marrakesh: Regulation of the City Market and the Symbolic Authority of Maliki Learning 1 Introduction 2 The Founding and Development of Marrakesh 3 The Motor of Gold: Two Questions Involving Gold Exchange 4 Mediating Exchange: Two Questions over Commercial Disputes 5 Transmitting and Developing Juristic Knowledge: Two Questions Resolving Contradictions within the School 6 The Symbolic Religious Authority of Cordoba: the Case of the Man who Wouldn't Remove his Turban and the Case of the Apostate 2 Fatwas to the Far Maghrib: Ibn Rushd's Consultations for the Amir and Cases of Murder and Stolen Cattle 1 Introduction 2 Questions from the Almoravid Leadership: On the Permissibility of Ash'arism and the Exceptionalism of the Islamic Maghrib 3 Two Technical Questions from al-'Idwa: Ritual and Murder 4 The Islamicization of Property: Partitioning and Gifts from Plunder 3 Fatwas to Ceuta: Water Rights, Judicial Review, and Ibn Rushd's Correspondence with al-Qadi 'Iyad 1 Introduction 2 Historical Background 3 The Qadi 4 Islamic Water Law 5 The First Ruling 6 The Case Re-Opened: Judicial Review and Avoiding Harm 7 'Iyad's Case Part II: Riparian Dispute, Avoiding Harm, and Water Rights Adjudication Epilogue Appendix A: Breakdown of the Fatwas in al-Wansharisi's Mi'yar by Subject and Region Appendix B: Fatwas Chapter One Appendix C: Fatwas Chapter Two Appendix D: Fatwa Chapter Three, The Case of the Gardeners vs. the Bibliography Index

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Le livre de C. Gomez-Rivas apporte une contribution precieuse et originale a notre connaissance de l'evolution du malikisme et de l'histoire du Maghreb medieval en general. Ismail Warscheid in Studia Islamica 110 (2015) 268-271.

Le livre de C. Gomez-Rivas apporte une contribution precieuse et originale a notre connaissance de l'evolution du malikisme et de l'histoire du Maghreb medieval en general. Ismail Warscheid in Studia Islamica 110 (2015) 268-271.

Author Information

Camilo Gomez-Rivas, Ph.D. (2009), Yale University, is assistant professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His publications include The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier , in The Articulation of Power in Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib (Oxford University Press, 2014).

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