Legal Documents as Sources for the History of Muslim Societies:  Studies in Honour of Rudolph Peters 

 - xxviii, 303 p.,  color ill.;  25 cm 
 - Studies in Islamic Law and Society;  Vol. 42 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Rudolph Peters and the history of modern Egyptian law  The Qadisʼ justice according to papyrological sources (Seventh-Tenth Centuries CE)  Delegation of judicial power in Abbasid Egypt  The Mahdiʼs legal opinion as an instrument of reform. Issues in divorce, inheritance, false accusation of unlawful intercourse and homicide  Identifying the ʻudūl in Fifteenth-Century Granada  Crimes without criminals? Legal documents on Fourteenth-Century injury and homicide cases from the Haram Collection in Jerusalem  From trash to treasure. Ethnographic notes on collecting legal documents in Morocco  Notes for a local history of falsehood  Waqf documents on the provision of water in Mamluk Egypt  Ottoman Amān. Western ownership of Real Estate and the politics of law prior to the land code of 1876  A comparative study of contract documents. Ottoman Syria, Qajar Iran, Central Asia, Qing China and Tokugawa Japan  Khaled Fahmy  Mathieu Tillier  Petra M. Sijpesteijn  Aharon Layish  Sergio Carro Martín and Amalia Zomeño  Christian Müller  Léon Buskens  Brinkley Messick  Maaike van Berkel  Maurits H. van den Boogert  Toru Miura 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004343726 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Legal documents--Islamic law<br/>Islamic law--History<br/>Law--History--Islamic countries<br/>Sociological jurisprudence