David S. Powers

Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300 1500

Herausgeber: Morgan, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A 2002 analysis of Islamic law as it was imposed on the people of the medieval Maghrib.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780521816915
• ISBN-10: 0521816912
• Artikelnr.: 22701610

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
16/1312
16; 3. A riparian dispute in the Middle Atlas mountains, c. 683
824/1285
1421; 4. Conflicting conceptions of property in Fez, 741
826/1340
1423; 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.