Съдържание:
  • The MukhtasĐar of al-Khiraqi„ and its place in the formation of HĐanbali„ legal doctrine / Nimrod Hurvitz
  • Law and custom in the Maghrib, 1475-1500: on the disinheritance of women / David S. Powers
  • Women as expert witnesses in pre-modern Islamic courts / Ron Shaham
  • Qa„dĐi„, mufti„ and ruler: their roles in the development of Islamic law / Miriam Hoexter
  • Ottoman qa„dĐi„s in Damascus during the 16th-18th centuries / Michael Winter
  • Patronage, intervention, and violence in the legal process in eighteenth-century Salonica and its province / Eyal Ginio
  • Archaic forms of contract in Max Weber's Theories and in Arab and Somali customary law / Frank H. Stewart
  • Provincial judges: the Shar„a judiciary of mid-twentieth-century Yemen / Brinkley Messick
  • "All of Palestine is holy Muslim wafq land": a myth and its roots / Yitzhak Reiter
  • Legal reform, interpretive communities and the quest for legitimacy: a contextual analysis of a legal circular / Ido Shahar.