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Chapter 24 - Introduction to Part IV

from Part IV - Court Judgments and Other Court Documentation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

Edited by
Omar Anchassi  and
Robert Gleave
Omar Anchassi
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Robert Gleave
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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Summary

This introduction to Section 4 of the volume on court judgements and related works discusses the nature of recent research on the subject and comments on the increased availability of primary sources (in the form of sijillāt) from the Ottoman period onwards, including a representative bibliography of recent scholarship on the subject.

Keywords

Judge (qāḍī)LitigantsLitigationSijillātCourt recordsPlaintiff (muddaʿī)Defendant (muddaʿī ʿalayhi).
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Islamic Law in Context
A Primary Source Reader
 , pp. 263 - 265
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Baldwin, James. Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chatterjee, Nandini. Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fadel, Mohammad. ‘al-Qāḍī’, in The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law, ed. Emon, Anver and Ahmed, Rumee (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 301–26.Google Scholar
Hirschler, Konrad. ‘From Archive to Archival Practices: Rethinking the Preservation of Mamluk Administrative Documents’, Journal of the American Oriental Society 136 (2016), 1–28.Google Scholar
Khan, Geoffrey. ‘The Opening Formula and Witness Clauses in Arabic Legal Documents from the Early Islamic Period’, Journal of the American Oriental Society 139 (2019), 23–40.Google Scholar
Masud, Muhammad Khalid, Peters, Rudolph and Powers, David S. (eds.). Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their Judgements (Leiden: Brill, 2005).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Müller, Christian. Der Kadi und seine Zeugen: Studie der mamlukischen Ḥaram-Dokumente aus Jerusalem (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013).Google Scholar
Peirce, Leslie P. Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peters, Rudolph. Shariʿa, Justice and Legal Order: Egyptian and Islamic Law: Selected Essays (Leiden: Brill, 2020).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rabb, Intisar and Balbale, Abigail (eds.). Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts (Boston: Harvard University Press, 2018).Google Scholar
Sartori, Paulo. Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva (19th–Early 20th Centuries) (Leiden: Brill, 2020).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shaham, Ron. Family and the Courts in Modern Egypt: A Study Based on Decisions by the Sharīʿa Courts, 1900–1955 (Leiden: Brill, 1997).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sonneveld, Nadia and Lindbekk, Monika (eds.). Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Study of Discourse and Practice (Leiden: Brill, 2017).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tucker, Judith E. In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1998).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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