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

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

Author: Maaike van Berkel; Leon Buskens; Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9789004343726
Published In: June 2017
Format: Hardback
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This volume is a tribute to the work of legal and social historian and Arabist Rudolph Peters (University of Amsterdam). Presenting case studies from different periods and areas of the Muslim world, the book examines the use of legal documents for the study of the history of Muslim societies. From examinations of the conceptual status of legal documents to comparative studies of the development of legal formulae and the socio-economic or political historical information documents contain, the aim is to approach legal documents as specialised texts belonging to a specific social domain, while simultaneously connecting them to other historical sources. It discusses the daily functioning of legal institutions, the reflections of regime changes on legal documentation, daily life, and the materiality of legal documents.

Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Léon Buskens, Khaled Fahmy, Aharon Layish, Sergio Carro Martín, Brinkley Messick, Toru Miura, Christian Müller, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Mathieu Tillier, and Amalia Zomeño.

Introduction, Maaike van Berkel, Léon Buskens and Petra M. Sijpesteijn

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography Rudolph Peters

Rudolph Peters and the History of Modern Egyptian Law, Khaled Fahmy

I. REGIME CHANGE AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS

The Qadis’ Justice according to Papyrological Sources (Seventh–Tenth Centuries C.E.), Mathieu Tillier

Delegation of Judicial Power in Abbasid Egypt, Petra M. Sijpesteijn

The Mahdi’s Legal Opinion as an Instrument of Reform: Issues in Divorce, Inheritance, False Accusation of Unlawful Intercourse and Homicide, Aharon Layish

II. PRACTICES OF RECORDING AND VERIFYING

Identifying the ʿudūl in Fifteenth-Century Granada, Sergio Carro Martín and Amalia Zomeño

Crimes without Criminals? Legal Documents on Fourteenth-Century Injury and Homicide Cases from the Ḥaram Collection in Jerusalem, Christian Müller

From Trash to Treasure: Ethnographic Notes on Collecting Legal Documents in Morocco, Léon Buskens

Notes for a Local History of Falsehood, Brinkley Messick

III. DAILY LIFE

Waqf Documents on the Provision of Water in Mamluk Egypt, Maaike van Berkel

Ottoman amān: Western Ownership of Real Estate and the Politics of Law Prior to the

Land Code of 1876, Maurits H. van den Boogert

A Comparative Study of Contract Documents: Ottoman Syria, Qajar Iran, Central Asia, Qing China and Tokugawa Japan, Toru Miura