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Baber Johansen, The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent: The Peasants' Loss of Property Rights as Interpreted in the Hanafite Legal Literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods (London: Croom Helm, 1988). Pp. 143.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Affiliation:
Department of Legal Studies, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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1 See his comments in Chehata, C., Droit musulman. Applications au Proche-Orient (Paris, 1971)Google Scholar that it is exchange that is central to Islamic contract theory (p. 38) in his Théorie générale de l'obligation en droit musulman hanéfite (Paris, 1969) that “Le prix c'est I'équivalent de la chose” (p. 67).Google Scholar

2 A1-Marghīnānī, , The Hedaya (Lahore, 1975), p. 533.Google Scholar

3 In this connection, Cahen states, “Les terres laissées aux indigènes l'étaient sous réserve du paiement du kharâdj, qui prolongeait en fait l'impôt foncier des régimes précédents, mais était considéré par les nouveaux maîtres comme signifiant reconnaissance de I'éminent propriété raqaba de la Communauté musulmane sur les biens faï” (Cahen, , p. 108).Google Scholar