The law applied : contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a : a volume in honor of Frank E. Vogel / edited by Peri Bearman, Wolfhart Heinrichs, Bernard G. Weiss.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2008.Description: xi, 442 p. ; 24 cmOther title: - Islamic Shari'a
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Looks at judicial decision-making, legal responses (fatwas), customary practices, the actions of public inspectors, cultural contexts, and theological discourses as well as modern legal reform and constitutional development. This book offers an account of how Islamic law works in practice in the social life of the contemporary world.
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