Narratives of truth in Islamic law /
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| Imprint: | London : I.B. Tauris, 2008. |
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| Description: | 382 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Islamic law ; v. 2 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6825394 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Legal Truth in Islamic History
- 1. The Stories in the Fatwas and the Fatwas in History
- 2. Legal Narratives From Shari'a Courts
- 3. The Violent Schoolmaster: The 'Normalisation' of the Dossier of a Nineteenth Century Egyptian Legal Case
- Stories About the Law
- 4. Registering a Token Dower: The Multiple Meanings of a Legal Practice
- 5. Publicizing Propriety, "Telling the Truth": Extra-court Constructions of Legal Stories in Mali
- 6. The Saint, the Sheikh and the Adulteress: Letters From the Heart Addressed to Imam al-Shafi'i in Cairo
- Legal Stories From Within and From Without
- 7. Tales According to the Book: Professional Witnesses ('udul) as Cultural Brokers in Morocco
- 8. What to do With Djinns Stories About Law?
- 9. Trying Times in Tunis: Notes From a Purposeful Observer
- Stories in the Law
- 10. The Insane Shepherd-Who-Writes: Is He Competent to Stand Trial?
- 11. The Judicial Construction of the Facts and the Law: The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court and the Constitutionality of the Law on the Khul'
- 12. Investigating and Prosecuting Police Abuse in Egypt
- 13. The Categories of Morality: Homosexuality Between Perversion and Debauchery
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index of Names Cited
- Index
