This book is a study of the historical record of Muslim women's property rights and equity. Based on Islamic court documents of fifteenth-century Granada--documents that show a high degree of women's involvement--the book examines women's legal entitlements to acquire property as well as the social and economic significance of these rights to Granada's female population and, by extension, to women in other Islamic societies.
The microhistory of women's property rights is placed in a comparative historical, social, and economic context and is examined using a...
This book is a study of the historical record of Muslim women's property rights and equity. Based on Islamic court documents of fifteenth-century ...
Although often neglected in the literature on Islamic law, contemporary Indonesia is an especially rich source of insight into the diverse understandings and uses of the Islamic legal tradition in the modern world. Indonesian Muslims are engaged in vibrant and far-reaching debates over the terms, relevance, and developmental limits of Islamic law, and Indonesia is home to a variety of dynamic state and non-state institutional structures for the generation and application of Islamic doctrine. The essays in this volume provide focused examinations of the internal dynamics of intellectual and...
Although often neglected in the literature on Islamic law, contemporary Indonesia is an especially rich source of insight into the diverse understandi...
Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts explores the administration of justice during Islam's founding period, 632 1250 CE. Inspired by the scholarship of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, ten scholars of Islamic law draw on diverse sources including historical chronicles, biographical dictionaries, exegetical works, and mirrors for princes.
Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts explores the administration of justice during Islam's founding period, 632 1250 CE. Inspired by the sch...
