Narratives of truth in Islamic law. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Baudouin Dupret, Barbara Drieskens, Annelies Moors.
• Other Names: Dupret, Baudouin; Moors, Annelies; Drieskens, Barbara
• Contents: The stories in the fatwas and the fatwas in history / A. Zomeño -- Legal narratives from Shari'a courts / B. Messick -- The violent schoolmaster : the 'normalisation' of the dossier of a nineteenth century Egyptian legal case / R. Peters -- Registering a token dower : the multiple meanings of a legal practice / A. Moors -- Publicizing propriety, "telling the truth" : extra-court constructions of legal stories in Mali / D. Schultz -- The saint, the sheikh and the adulteress : letters from the heart addressed to Imam al-Shafi'i in Cairo / E. Adly -- Tales according to the book : professional witnesses ('udul) as cultural brokers in Morocco / L. Buskens -- What to do with Djinns stories about law? / B. Drieskens -- Trying times in Tunis : notes from a purposeful observer / L. Welchman -- The insane shepherd-who-writes : is he competent to stand trial? / Z. Ghazzal -- The judicial construction of the facts and the law : the Egyptian supreme constitutional court and the constitutionality of the law on the khul' / N. Bernard-Maugiron -- Investigating and prosecuting police abuse in Egypt / A. Wuerth -- The categories of morality : homosexuality between perversion and debauchery / B. Dupret.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (382 pages)
• Subjects: 340.59; Truth -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Islamic law -- Case studies; RELIGION -- Islam -- Law; Islam; Recht; Wahrheit; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441615886; 1441615881; 9780857715043; 0857715046
• Related ISBNs: 9781845111878; 1845111877
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.