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Islamic law, tribal customary law, and Waqf : studies in the legal history of the modern Middle East and North Africa /
Table of Contents: “…Customary khul' as reflected in the sijill of the Libyan Sharī'a Courts -- Interplay between tribal and Shar'ī law : a case of Tibbāwī blood money in the Sharī'a Court of Kufra -- Shahādat naql in the judicial practice in modern Libya -- Islamization of custom as reflected in awards of tribal arbitrators in the Judaean desert -- The Qāḍī's role in the Islamization of sedentary tribal society -- Dār 'adl-symbiosis of custom and Sharī'a in a tribal society in process of sedentarization -- The fatwā as an instrument of the Islamization of a tribal society in process of sedentarization -- The Sudanese Mahdī's legal methodology and its Ṣūfī inspiration -- The legal methodology of the Mahdi in the Sudan, 1881-1885 : issues in marriage and divorce -- Ḥasan al-Turābī (1932-) -- The transformation of the Sharī'a from jurists' law to statutory law in the contemporary Muslim world -- Islamic law in the modern world : nationalization, lslamization, reinstatement -- Waqf, testamentary Waqf, and bequests -- Waqfs of Awlād al-Nās in Aleppo in the late Mamlūk period as reflected in a family archive -- Waqfs and Ṣūfī monasteries in the Ottoman policy of colonization : Sulṭān Selīm I's Waqf of 1516 in favour of Dayr al-Asad -- The Mālikī family Waqf according to wills and Waqfiyyāt -- The Family Waqf and the Shar'ī law of succession in modern times -- Bequests as an instrument for accommodating inheritance rules : Israel as a case study -- The Muslim Waqf in Israel -- The heritage of Ottoman rule in the Israeli legal system : the concept of Umma and Millet -- Adaptation of a jurists' law to modern times in an alien environment : the case of the Sharī'a in Israel.…”
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Social history of women and gender in the modern Middle East /
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Contract and property in early modern China /
Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Litigation, legitimacy, and lethal violence : why county courts failed to prevent violent disputes over property in eighteenth-century China / Thomas Buoye -- Property, taxes, and state protection of rights / Anne Osborne -- The status of contracts in nineteenth-century Chinese courts / Mark Allee -- The missing metaphor : applying Western legal scholarship the study of contract and property in early modern China / Jonathan Ocko -- Supplemental payment in urban property contracts in mid to late Qing Shanghai / Feng Shaoting -- Managing multiple ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard / Madeleine Zelin -- Custom, the code, and legal practice : the contracts of Changlu salt merchants in late imperial China / Man Bun Kwan -- Companies in debt : financial arrangements in the textile industry in the lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937 / Tomoko Shiroyama -- Contracting business partnerships in late Qing and Republican China : paradigms and patterns / Robert Gardella.…”
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Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt Am Main
Table of Contents: “…Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Forgotten Women: Putting Gender in Histories of Crime -- 2 Crime and Social Control -- 3 Crime and the City -- 4 History of Crime in Early Modern Frankfurt -- 5 Composition of the Book -- 6 Setting the Scene: Frankfurt am Main as a Case Study for Female Crime -- 7 Sources -- Chapter 2 A Multi-Layered Legal System: Criminal Justice in Early Modern Frankfurt -- 1 The Administration of Justice in a Multifaceted Legal Landscape…”
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