Dispensing Justice in Islam
Qadis and their Judgements
Published on 23. February 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
608 pages
978-90-04-22683-8 (ISBN)
Description
Dispensing Justice is designed to serve as a sourcebook of Islamic legal practice and qadi court records from the rise of Islam to modern times, drawing upon court records and qadi judgments, in addition to literary sources. In the first chapter, we survey the state of the field, sketching the history, structure, and modern transformation of the qadiship. The twenty chapters that follow are grouped thematically in four sections: (1) the nature and functions of the judgeship and its development over time; (2) the structure of the judicial apparatus; (3) the application of juristic thought and reasoning to specific cases in selected areas of the law; and (4) judicial procedure and the different forms of evidence. The volume fills a large gap in Islamic legal history.
Originally published in hardcover.
Originally published in hardcover.
Reviews / Votes
"This volume makes a significant contribution to the growing number of studies that utilize court records and anthropological and ethnographic research to analyze legal practice in the shari?a court's socio-legal setting. [...]The strength of this volume lies in the editors' choice to compile a collection of scholarship that re?ects on common themes across disciplinary boundaries." - Karen Kern, in: MESA - RoMES 44.1 (2010)"[...] this volume represents the single most important available source for the analysis of qa?is and their role in the operation of the law in Muslim contexts. A competitor volume does not exist." - Robert Gleave, in: Journal of Islamic Studies, 2011
"... an extremely valuable contribution to the reflection on, and hopefully also to the practice of, the institution of the qa?i-s." - Piet Horsten, in: Islamochristiana 38 (2012)
"...an excellent book, a major contribution to Islamic Law studies." - Sotirios S. Livas, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 22 (2013), 373-375
"The volume is thoughtfully put together, reasonably complete, rich, and suggestive, corrective of any number of misinformed assumptions about Islamic law in modern literature that had been based on a thin reading of formal-theoretical texts on legal doctrine, and a welcome first step in the passage of the field of Islamic legal practice to the age of maturity." - Ovamir Anjum, in: Ilahiyat Studies 5.2 (2014), 261-264 [DOI: 10.12730/13091719.2014.52.113]
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
All those interested in Islamic law, Islamic history, legal history, jurisprudence, judicial practice, legal interpretation, anthropology, sociology of law, and Muslim societies.
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
850 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-22683-8 (9789004226838)
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Qadis and their Judgements
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Persons
Muhammad Khalid Masud, Ph.D. in Islamic Studies, McGill University, formerly Academic Director, ISIM, Leiden is Chairman, Council of Islamic Ideology, Pakistan. He has published extensively on Islamic law and social change. His recent publications include Shatibi's Philosophy of Islamic Law (1996), the co-edited work Islamic Legal Interpretations (1996), and the edited volume Travelers in Faith (Brill 2000).
David S. Powers, Ph.D., Islamic History, Princeton (1979). Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Cornell University since 1979; editor of the journal Islamic Law and Society (Brill); author of Studies in Qur'an and Hadith: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance (University of California Press, 1986); and Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500 (Cambridge); co-editor of Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and the Fatwas (Harvard, 1996). He has published articles in Arabica, Studia Islamica, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Continuity and Change, Law and Society Review.
Rudolph Peters, Ph.D., Islamic Studies, University of Amsterdam (1979). Professor of Islamic Studies at University of Amsterdam; co-editor of the series Studies in Islamic Law and Society (Brill); author of Islam and Colonialism: The doctrine of jihad in modern history (Mouton/Walter de Gruyter, 1979), Jihad in classial and modern Islam (Princeton, Wiener, 1996), Crime and punishment in Islamic law (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He has published articles in Islamic Law and Society, Die Welt des Islams, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Studies and Annales Islamologiques.
David S. Powers, Ph.D., Islamic History, Princeton (1979). Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Cornell University since 1979; editor of the journal Islamic Law and Society (Brill); author of Studies in Qur'an and Hadith: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance (University of California Press, 1986); and Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500 (Cambridge); co-editor of Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and the Fatwas (Harvard, 1996). He has published articles in Arabica, Studia Islamica, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Continuity and Change, Law and Society Review.
Rudolph Peters, Ph.D., Islamic Studies, University of Amsterdam (1979). Professor of Islamic Studies at University of Amsterdam; co-editor of the series Studies in Islamic Law and Society (Brill); author of Islam and Colonialism: The doctrine of jihad in modern history (Mouton/Walter de Gruyter, 1979), Jihad in classial and modern Islam (Princeton, Wiener, 1996), Crime and punishment in Islamic law (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He has published articles in Islamic Law and Society, Die Welt des Islams, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Studies and Annales Islamologiques.