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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

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Author Biography: Colin Imber

Colin Imber teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester.

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ch. 1The Ottoman Empire, the Law and Ebu's-suud3
Ch. 2The Law: sharia and qanun24
Ch. 3The Sultan and Legal Sovereignty65
Ch. 4The Caliphate98
Ch. 5Land Tenure and Taxation115
Ch. 6Trusts in Mortmain139
Ch. 7Marriage and its Dissolution165
Ch. 8Crimes and Torts: Offences against Property210
Ch. 9Crimes and Torts: Offences against the Person236
Conclusion269
English Equivalents of Legal and Technical Terms273
Glossary275
Index280

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