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Authors: Colin Imber
ISBN-13: 9780804729277, ISBN-10: 0804729271
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: August 1997
Edition: 1
Colin Imber teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester.
This biographical and intellectual study of a key figure in the history of Islamic Jurisprudence sets the legal problems in their social and historical context.
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Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | ||
Ch. 1 | The Ottoman Empire, the Law and Ebu's-suud | 3 |
Ch. 2 | The Law: sharia and qanun | 24 |
Ch. 3 | The Sultan and Legal Sovereignty | 65 |
Ch. 4 | The Caliphate | 98 |
Ch. 5 | Land Tenure and Taxation | 115 |
Ch. 6 | Trusts in Mortmain | 139 |
Ch. 7 | Marriage and its Dissolution | 165 |
Ch. 8 | Crimes and Torts: Offences against Property | 210 |
Ch. 9 | Crimes and Torts: Offences against the Person | 236 |
Conclusion | 269 | |
English Equivalents of Legal and Technical Terms | 273 | |
Glossary | 275 | |
Index | 280 |