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The Anthropology Of Justice » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Lawrence Rosen
ISBN-13: 9780521367400, ISBN-10: 0521367409
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Lawrence Rosen

Book Synopsis

The first full-scale study of the actual operations of the actual operations of a modern Islamic law court anywhere in the Arab world.

Table of Contents

Foreword Alfred Harris; Preface;

1. Law and culture: the appeal to analogy;
2. Determining the indeterminable;
3. Reason, intent, and the logic of consequence;
4. Judicial discretion, state power, and the concept of justice; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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