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The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent: The Peasants' Loss of Property Rights as Interpreted in the Hanafite Literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman Period. By Baber Johansen. London and New York: Croom Helm, Methuen1988. Pp. 143. Price not available. ISBN: 0-709-91496-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Tsugitaka Sato
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 15 , 2001 , pp. 483 - 486
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2000

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References

1. Schacht, Joseph, An Introduction to Islamic Law (Oxford: Oxford U. Press 1964)Google Scholar; Coulson, Noel J., A History of Islamic Law (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U. Press 1964)Google Scholar; Chehata, Chafik, Etudes de droit muselman (Paris: Presses universitaires de France 1971)Google Scholar.

2. All citations in the text refer to the book under review.

3. Concerning the iqta’ system in the Middle East, see Tsugitaka, Sato, State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam (Leiden: Brill 1997)Google Scholar.

4. Id. at 192-197, 236.