The Administration Of Justice In Medieval Egypt
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Author |
: Lev Yaacov Lev |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2020-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474459259 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474459250 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt by : Lev Yaacov Lev
This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved during the 7th to the 9th centuries, which involved four judicial institutions: the cadi, the court of complaint (mazalim), the police/shurta (responsible for criminal justice) and the Islamized market law (hisba) administrated by the market supervisor/muhtasib. Literary and non-literary sources are used to highlight how these institutions worked in real-time situations such as the famine of 1024-1025, which posed tremendous challenges to the market supervisors in Cairo. The inner workings of the court of complaint during the 11th-12th century Fatimid state are revealed through array of documentary sources. Further, non-Muslim communities, their courts and their sphere of responsibilities are treated as integral to how justice was dispensed in medieval Islam. Documentary sources offers significant insights into these issues and illuminate the scope and limits of non-Muslims self-rule/judicial autonomy.In sum, the book shows that the administrative and political history of the judiciary in medieval Egypt implicitly and explicitly illuminates broader questions about religious and social forces that shaped the lives of medieval people in the Middle East, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
Author |
: Yaacov Lev |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2020-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474459266 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474459269 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt by : Yaacov Lev
This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved during the 7th to the 9th centuries, which involved four judicial institutions: the cadi, the court of complaint (mazalim), the police/shurta (responsible for criminal justice) and the Islamized market law (hisba) administrated by the market supervisor/muhtasib. Literary and non-literary sources are used to highlight how these institutions worked in real-time situations such as the famine of 1024-1025, which posed tremendous challenges to the market supervisors in Cairo. The inner workings of the court of complaint during the 11th-12th century Fatimid state are revealed through array of documentary sources. Further, non-Muslim communities, their courts and their sphere of responsibilities are treated as integral to how justice was dispensed in medieval Islam. Documentary sources offers significant insights into these issues and illuminate the scope and limits of non-Muslims self-rule/judicial autonomy.In sum, the book shows that the administrative and political history of the judiciary in medieval Egypt implicitly and explicitly illuminates broader questions about religious and social forces that shaped the lives of medieval people in the Middle East, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
Author |
: Sarah Rubin Blanshei |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 682 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004182851 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004182853 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna by : Sarah Rubin Blanshei
Utilizing a uniquely rich collection of trial records and council meeting minutes from late medieval Bologna, this book offers the first study of summary justice and oligarchy in an Italian commune, demonstrating how new legal institutions arose in response to the increasingly exclusionary policies of the popolo government.
Author |
: Yaacov Lev |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1474480780 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781474480789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt by : Yaacov Lev
This text shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved during the 7th to the 9th centuries, which involved 4 judicial institutions: the cadi, the court of complaint, the police/shurta and the Islamized market law.
Author |
: Oded Zinger |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2023-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781512823806 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1512823805 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Living with the Law by : Oded Zinger
Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000-1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone. Probing the rich documents of the Cairo Geniza, a unique repository of discarded paper discovered in Cairo synagogue, the book recovers the life stories of Jewish women and men working through their marital problems at home, with their families, in the streets of old Cairo and in Jewish and Muslim courts. Despite a voluminous literature on Jewish law, the everyday practice of Jewish courts has only recently begun to be investigated systematically. The experiences of those at a legal, social, and cultural disadvantage allow us to go beyond the image propagated by legal institutions and offer a view "from below" of Jewish communal life and Jewish law as it was lived. Examining the interactions between gender and law in medieval Jewish communities under Islamic rule, Oded Zinger considers how women experienced Jewish courts and the pressure they were under to relinquish their monetary rights at court and at home. The tactics with which women countered this pressure, ranging from exploiting family ties to appealing to Muslim courts, expose the complex relationship between individual agency, gendered expectations, and communal authority. Zinger concludes that more than money, education, or lineage, it was the maintenance of a supportive network of social relations with men that protected women at different stages of their lives.
Author |
: Yaacov Lev |
Publisher |
: EUP |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2020-03-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1474459234 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781474459235 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt by : Yaacov Lev
This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved during the 7th to the 9th centuries, which involved four judicial institutions: the cadi, the court of complaint (mazalim), the police/shurta (responsible for criminal justice) and the Islamized market law (hisba) administrated by the market supervisor/muhtasib. Literary and non-literary sources are used to highlight how these institutions worked in real-time situations such as the famine of 1024-1025, which posed tremendous challenges to the market supervisors in Cairo. The inner workings of the court of complaint during the 11th-12th century Fatimid state are revealed through array of documentary sources. Further, non-Muslim communities, their courts and their sphere of responsibilities are treated as integral to how justice was dispensed in medieval Islam. Documentary sources offers significant insights into these issues and illuminate the scope and limits of non-Muslims self-rule/judicial autonomy. In sum, the book shows that the administrative and political history of the judiciary in medieval Egypt implicitly and explicitly illuminates broader questions about religious and social forces that shaped the lives of medieval people in the Middle East, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
Author |
: Larry May |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2019-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1108484107 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108484107 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Legal Thought by : Larry May
"Nearly four thousand years ago, kings in various ancient societies, especially in Mesopotamia (contemporary Iraq), faced a crisis of major proportions. Large portions of the population were horribly in debt, many being forced to sell themselves or their children into slavery to pay off their debts. The laws and customs seemed to support the commercial practices that allowed lenders to charge 20%-30% interest, and the law protected the lenders and gave no recourse for the indebted. Strict justice called for the creditors to receive what they were due. But another legal concept, the emerging idea of equity, seemed to call for a different result - the use of law as a vehicle to free people from economic oppression. Debt relief edicts were instituted - "clean-slate laws" as they were known - and are of obvious relevance today as well where crushing debt is a major issue underlying social inequality"--
Author |
: Olaf Köndgen |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 467 |
Release |
: 2021-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004472785 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004472789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law by : Olaf Köndgen
Drawing on a multitude of sources online and offline, in A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law Olaf Köndgen offers the most extensive bibliography on Islamic criminal law ever compiled.
Author |
: Jelle Bruning |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 525 |
Release |
: 2022-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009170017 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009170015 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World by : Jelle Bruning
Maps Egypt's political, economic and cultural connections throughout the Mediterranean and beyond between 500 and 1000 CE.
Author |
: Intisar A. Rabb |
Publisher |
: Harvard Series in Islamic Law |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674984218 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674984219 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts by : Intisar A. Rabb
Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts explores the administration of justice during Islam's founding period, 632-1250 CE. Inspired by the scholarship of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, ten scholars of Islamic law draw on diverse sources including historical chronicles, biographical dictionaries, exegetical works, and mirrors for princes.