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The development of Islamic law and society in the Maghrib : Qāḍīs, Muftīs and family law / David S. Powers.

By: Powers, David Stephan.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Variorum, c2011Description: x, [717] p. : ill., port. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781409403708 (cased) :.Subject(s): Domestic relations -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500 | Divorce (Islamic law) -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500 | Inheritance and succession (Islamic law) -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500 | Trusts and trustees (Islamic law) -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500DDC classification: 346.610 150 882 97
Contents:
Legal consultation (futyā) in medieval Spain and North Africa -- On judicial review in Islamic law -- Parents and their minor children : familial politics in the middle Maghrib in the eighth/fourteenth century -- From the Miʻyār of al-Wansharīsī to the New Miʻyār of al-Wazzānī : continuity and change (with Etty Terem) -- Women and divorce in the Islamic West : three cases -- Four cases relating to women and divorce in al-Andalus and the Maghrib, 1100-1500 -- The Islamic inheritance system : a socio-historical approach -- Law and custom in the Maghrib, 1475-1500 : on the disinheritance of women -- The Maliki family endowment : legal norms and social practices -- A court case from fourteenth-century North Africa -- Fatwās as sources for legal and social history : a dispute over endowment revenues from fourteenth-century Fez -- Orientalism, colonialism, and legal history : the attack on Muslim family endowments in Algeria and India.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Legal consultation (futyā) in medieval Spain and North Africa -- On judicial review in Islamic law -- Parents and their minor children : familial politics in the middle Maghrib in the eighth/fourteenth century -- From the Miʻyār of al-Wansharīsī to the New Miʻyār of al-Wazzānī : continuity and change (with Etty Terem) -- Women and divorce in the Islamic West : three cases -- Four cases relating to women and divorce in al-Andalus and the Maghrib, 1100-1500 -- The Islamic inheritance system : a socio-historical approach -- Law and custom in the Maghrib, 1475-1500 : on the disinheritance of women -- The Maliki family endowment : legal norms and social practices -- A court case from fourteenth-century North Africa -- Fatwās as sources for legal and social history : a dispute over endowment revenues from fourteenth-century Fez -- Orientalism, colonialism, and legal history : the attack on Muslim family endowments in Algeria and India.

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