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Title:

Justice and leadership in early Islamic courts / edited by Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale.

Publisher:

Islamic Legal Studies ProgramHarvard Law School,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xvii, 241 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Islamic courts--History--To 1500.
Justice, Administration of (Islamic law)--History--To 1500.
Islamic law--History--History--To 1500.
Islamic leadership--History--To 1500.
Islamic courts.
Islamic law--Interpretation and construction.
Islamic leadership.
Justice, Administration of (Islamic law)
To 1500
History.

Other Authors:

Rabb, Intisar A., editor.
Balbale, Abigail Krasner, editor.
Mottahedeh, Roy P., 1940- honouree.
Harvard Law School. Islamic Legal Studies Program, issuing body.

Notes:

"The papers in this volume largely arise out of proceedings from a conference organized in honor of Professor Roy Mottahedeh upon the occasion of his retirement"--Page viii. Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-230) and index.

Contents:

Chapter 9. Section Introduction / Section Introduction / Cemal Kafadar. Chapter 1. The Logic of Excluding Testimony in Early Islam / Ahmed El Shamsy ; Chapter 2. Circumstantial Evidence in the Administration of Islamic Justice / Hossein Modarressi ; Chapter 3. The Curious Case of Bughaybigha, 661-883: land and Leadership in Early Islamic Societies / Intisar A. Rabb ; Chapter 4. A Critique of Adjudication: Formative Moments in Early Islamic Legal History / Nahed Samour -- II. Concepts of Justice in the ʻAbbāsid East: Section Introduction / Intisar A. Rabb & Abigail Krasner Balbale ; Chapter 5. Words of ʻAjam in the World of Arab: Translation and Translator in Early Islamic Judicial Procedure / Mahmood Kooria ; Chapter 6. The Judge and the judge: The Heavenly and Earthly Court of Justice in Early Islam / Christian Lange ; Chapter 7. Justice, Judges, and the Law in Three Arabic Mirrors for Princes, 8th-11th Centuries / Louise Marlow -- III. Judges and Judicial Practice in the Islamic West: Section Introduction / Michael Cook ; Chapter 8. Joking Judges: A View from the Medieval Islamic West / Maribel Fierro ; Chapter 9. Judicial Procedure and Legal Practice on Liʻān (Imprectory Oath) in al-Andalus: Evidence from Model Shurūṭ Collections, 11th-12th Centuries / Delfina Serrano -- Supplement: Reading with Roy: The Scholarly Output of Professor Roy Mottahedeh: Section Introduction / Cemal Kafadar.

Series:

Harvard series in Islamic law ; VII

ISBN:

0674984218
9780674984219

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1002834955

LCCN:

2017948414

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)