Bedouin Justice

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Bedouin Justice Law and Custom Among the Egyptian Bedouin

By Austin Kennett
Routledge April 2013

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780415846202
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
April 2013
Format
Paperback , 176 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This volume was originally published in 1925 and is a digest of the law and practice of the Bedouin Courts, together with an account of desert life and customs.

Table of Contents

  • Topics include:
  • Tribal Organization
  • Application of Tribalism
  • Social Distinctions
  • The Tribal Idea
  • Judicial Organization
  • Evidence and Bedouin Law
  • Bloodmoney: Sinai and Western Desert
  • Debts
  • Land Disputes
  • Inheritance
  • Trial by Ordeal
  • Wounds and Damages
  • Laws Relating to Women
  • The Anomalous Position of Bedouin Law

Reviews

"Mr Kennett, although he may have been tempted to deal weightily with a subject often so ponderous as the jurisprudence of a whole race, yet contrives to make his style and his subject matter as light as the desert sand…" Times Literary Supplement

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