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.

Review of the hardback: ' … paints a vivid picture of Muslim society in the Maghrib in the 14th and 15th centuries.' Cornell Chronicle

• 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.

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.

Review of the hardback: ' … paints a vivid picture of Muslim society in the Maghrib in the 14th and 15th centuries.' Cornell Chronicle

• 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.

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.

Review of the hardback: ' … paints a vivid picture of Muslim society in the Maghrib in the 14th and 15th centuries.' Cornell Chronicle

• 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.