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Köp båda 2 för 1311 krReview of the hardback: ' ... paints a vivid picture of Muslim society in the Maghrib in the 14th and 15th centuries.' Cornell Chronicle
Review of the hardback: '[A] major contribution to the history of Islamic law, as well as that of North Africa ... For an understanding of that society and its history, his analysis is a gem.' Michael Brett, The Times Literary Supplement
Review of the hardback: 'The book is a must for anyone who wants to understand how Islamic law functioned in practice after 287/900. The material ... is presented in a clear and systematic manner, not only making it accessible for the non-legal mind but also actually engaging the reader in such a way that one awaits the outcome with interest.' Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
Review of the hardback: '... highly readable ...' Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
Review of the hardback: '... a major landmark ... even without a profound knowledge of Islamic law, these case-studies will attract those interested in the actual application of sacred laws as well as in the cultural specific notions involved in the elaboration of legal doctrine.' Numen
Review of the hardback: 'Powers' volume is one of the first in the field for an Anglophone readership, and it is wholly appropriate that it features in the distinguished series 'Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization'.' Journal of Legal History
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.
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.