RT Book
T1 Islamic law, tribal customary law, and Waqf: studies in the legal history of the modern Middle East and North Africa
T2 Studies in Islamic law and society
A1 Layiš, Aharôn 1933-2022
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1879108607
AB "In this collected volume, Aharon Layish demonstrates that legal documents are an essential source for legal and social history. Since the late nineteenth century, Islamic law has undergone tremendous transformations, some of which have strongly affected the basic features of its nature. The changes include the transformation of Islamic law from a jurists' law to a statutory law; the abolishment of waqf; the Islamization of tribal customary law; the creation of Sudanese legal methodologies strongly inspired by Ṣūfī and Salafī traditions or Western law, and the emergence of an Israeli version of Islamic law"--
NO Includes index
CN KBP64
SN 9789004680920
K1 Islamic Law : Middle East : History
K1 Islamic Law : Africa, North : History
K1 Customary law (Islamic law)
K1 Waqf
K1 Islamic Law : Sudan
K1 Islamic Law : Israel
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
DO 10.1163/9789004680920