The justice of Islam : Comparative perspectives on Islamic law and society
- Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000
- 234p ix
CONTENTS; Introduction; Part 1 The socio-logic of Islamic legal reasoning 1 Equity and discretion in Islamic law 2 Islamic case law and the logic of consequence 3 Islamic law as common law: Power, culture, and the reconfiguration of legal taxonomies 4 Responsibility and compensatory justice in Arab culture and law Part 2 In and out of court 5 From courtroom to courtyard: Law and custom in popular legal culture 6 On the docket: Changing conventions in a Muslim court, 1965–1995 7 Local justice: A day in an alternative court 8 Whom do you trust? Structuring confidence in Arab law and society Part 3 Justice past and present 9 Islamic concepts of justice and injustice 10 Muhammad’s sociological jurisprudence 11 Private thoughts, public utterances: Law, privacy, and the consequences for community 12 Islam and Islamic culture in the courts of the United States Reference; Index
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1. Islamic Law 2. Islamic Law - Sociological Jurisprudence