Justice and leadership in early Islamic courts / edited by Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harvard Law School. Islamic Legal Studies Program, issuing body.

Rabb, Intisar A., editor.

Balbale, Abigail Krasner, editor.

Mottahedeh, Roy P., 1940-2024, honouree.

Series:

Harvard series in Islamic law ; 7.

Harvard series in Islamic law ; VII

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic courts--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Islamic courts.

Justice, Administration of (Islamic law)--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Justice, Administration of (Islamic law).

Islamic law--Interpretation and construction--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Islamic law.

Islamic leadership--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Islamic leadership.

Islamic law--Interpretation and construction.

Mottahedeh, Roy P., 1940-2024.

Mottahedeh, Roy P.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Festschriften.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 241 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm.

Distribution:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by the Harvard University Press.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, 2017.

Summary:

Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic courts explores the administration of justice during Islamic law's founding period, 632-1250 CE. Inspired by the scholarship of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh and composed in his honor, this volume brings together ten leading historians of Islamic law to examine the history of early Islamic courts. Each author draws on diverse sources that reveal a broader and deeper vision of law and society than traditional legal literature alone can provide. This analysis includes historical chronicles, biographical dictionaries, legal canons, exegetical works, and mirrors for princes alongside references to the Qur'an and hadith, legal treatises, and other conventional sources for Islamic law. Altogether, the volume offers both a substantive intervention on early Islamic courts and on methods for studying legal history as social history. It illuminates the varied and dynamic legal landscapes stretching across early Islamic societies and maps new approaches to interdisciplinary legal history. Book jacket.

Contents:

I. Judicial procedure and practice during the founding period of Islamic law. Section introduction / William Graham

Chapter 1. The logic of excluding testimony in early Islam / Ahmed El Shamsy

Chapter 2. Circumstantial evidence in the administration of Islamic justice / Hossein Modarressi

Chapter 3. The curious case of Bughaybigha, 661-883 : land and leadership in early Islamic societies / Intisar A. Rabb

Chapter 4. A critique of adjudication : formative moments in early Islamic legal history / Nahed Samour

II. Concepts of justice in the ʻAbbāsid East. Section introduction / Intisar A. Rabb & Abigail Krasner Balbale

Chapter 5. Words of ʻajam in the world of Arab : translation and translator in early Islamic judicial procedure / Mahmood Kooria

Chapter 6. The Judge and the judge : the heavenly and earthly court of justice in early Islam / Christian Lange

Chapter 7. Justice, judges, and the law in three Arabic mirrors for princes, 8th-11th centuries / Louise Marlow

III. Judges and judicial practice in the Islamic West: Section introduction / Michael Cook

Chapter 8. Joking judges : a view from the medieval Islamic West / Maribel Fierro

Chapter 9. Judicial procedure and legal practice on liʻān (imprectory oath) in al-Andalus : evidence from model shurūṭ collections, 11th-12th Centuries / Delfina Serrano

Supplement: Reading with Roy : the scholarly output of Professor Roy Mottahedeh: Section introduction / Cemal Kafadar.

Notes:

"The papers in this volume largely arise out of proceedings from a conference organized in honor of Professor Roy Mottahedeh upon the occasion of his retirement"--Page viii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-230) and index.

ISBN:

9780674984219

0674984218

OCLC:

1002834955

Publisher Number:

99977319475