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Author:   Ron Shaham
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   28
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.623kg
ISBN:  

9789004154537

ISBN 10:   9004154531
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   29 November 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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CONTENTS Preface (Ron Shaham) Introduction Academic Autobiography (Aharon Layish) List of Publications (Aharon Layish) Chapter One The Mukhtasar of al-Khiraqi and its Place in the Formation of Hanbali Legal Doctrine (Nimrod Hurvitz) Chapter Two Law and Custom in the Maghrib, 1475-1500: On the Disinheritance of Women (David S. Powers) Chapter Three Women as Expert Witnesses in Pre-Modern Islamic Courts (Ron Shaham) Chapter Four Qadi, Mufti and Ruler: Their Roles in the Development of Islamic Law (Miriam Hoexter) Chapter Five Ottoman Qadis in Damascus during the 16th-18th Centuries (Michael Winter) Chapter Six Patronage, Intervention and Violence in the Legal Process in Eighteenth-Century Salonica and its Province (Eyal Ginio) Chapter Seven Archaic Forms of Contract in Max Weber's Theories and in Arab and Somali Customary Law (Frank H. Stewart) Chapter Eight Provincial Judges: The Shari Ê¿a Judiciary of Mid-Twentieth-Century Yemen (Brinkley Messick) Chapter Nine All of Palestine is Holy Muslim Waqf Land : A Myth and its Roots (Yitzhak Reiter) Chapter Ten Legal Reform, Interpretive Communities and the Quest for Legitimacy: A Contextual Analysis of a Legal Circular (Ido Shahar) List of Contributors Bibliography Index

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Ron Shaham, Ph.D. (1992) in Islamic Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University. Author of Family and the Courts in Modern Egypt (Brill, 1997), he has published extensively on Egyptian modern family law reform, and on the legal status of non-Muslims.

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