Shattering Tradition

Custom, Law and the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean

By: Walter Dostal, Wolfgang Kraus

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Hardcover | 22 April 2005 | Edition Number 1

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Few deny that in the Muslim world religion and law are intimately linked. However, local legal realities mean that Islamic law is often pushed out of the picture by customary law, which is usually tribal, and by state law. The three may at times produce similar or identical rulings and it is thus often difficult to identify which is at work under such circumstances. When the different legal systems clash, problems start to emerge. Shattering Tradition concentrates on customary law, which is the least investigated of the three and considers the ruptures and potential for conflict in Muslim law as well as the continuities and interactions. This groundbreaking series of empirical case studies investigates the varying ways in which different forms of law interrelate and it analyzes how the tensions between them are resolved in local settings.

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"An impressive array of scholarship on Islamic law in action in historical and contemporary locations. Shattering Tradition is a timely demonstration of the flexibility and contexuality of Islamic law against the common conceptions of the Shari'a as a fixed canon. There is much useful material for the student and scholar. - Sami Zubaida, Professor of Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London"

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Introduction	p. 1
The Significance of Customary Law in the Traditional Urban Market: A Contribution on the Administration of Justice in the Pre-modern Arab World	p. 20
Early Ottoman Customary Law: The Genesis and Development of Ottoman Codification	p. 75
Tribal Customary Law of the Zahran Confederation in Southern Hijaz (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)	p. 122
Tribal Law in the Moroccan High Atlas: Pre-colonial Legal Practice and its Transformations	p. 148
Women's Choices: Norms, Legal Pluralism and Social Control among the Ayt Hdiddu of Central Morocco	p. 189
Legal Regulation of Moroccan Habous under French Rule: Local Legal Practice vs. Islamic Law?	p. 208
The Saints of Hadramawt	p. 233
Regulations of the Silver Market in San'a': On the Origins and Significance of a Legal Document	p. 254
The Collapse of the State and the Resurgence of Customary Law in Northern Somalia	p. 278
Index	p. 319
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