Islamic Law, Tribal Customary Law and Waqf

Studies in the Legal History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-31405-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Arabisch, Band 54, 630 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1197 g

Reihe: Studies in Islamic Law and Society

In this collected volume, Aharon Layish demonstrates that legal documents are an essential source for legal and social history. Since the late nineteenth century, Islamic law has undergone tremendous transformations, some of which have strongly affected the basic features of its nature.

The changes include the transformation of Islamic law from a jurists’ law to a statutory law; the abolishment of waqf; the Islamization of tribal customary law; the creation of Sudanese legal methodologies strongly inspired by Sufi and Salafi traditions or Western law, and the emergence of an Israeli version of Islamic law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Layish, Aharon

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

In Memoriam Aharon Layish (1933-2022), Ron Shaham and David S. Powers

Acknowledgments

Note from the Publisher

Introduction

Part 1 Interplay between Shari'a and Tribal Law

1. Customary khul' as reflected in the sijill of the Libyan Shari'a courts

2. Interplay between Tribal and Shar'i Law: A Case of Tibbawi Blood Money in the Shari'a Court of Kufra

3. Shahadat naql in the Judicial Practice in Modern Libya

4. Islamization of custom as reflected in awards of tribal arbitrators in the Judaean desert

5. The Qadi’s Role in the Islamization of Sedentary Tribal Society

6. Dar 'adl – Symbiosis of Custom and Shari'a in a Tribal Society in Process of Sedentarization

7. The fatwa as an instrument of the Islamization of a tribal society in process of sedentarization

Part 2 Legal Methodologies in Sudan

8. The Sudanese Mahdi’s Legal Methodology and its Sufi Inspiration

9. The Legal Methodology of the Mahdi in the Sudan, 1881-1885: Issues in Marriage and Divorce

10. Hasan al-Turabi (1932– )

Part 3 Modern Trends in Islamic Law

11. The Transformation of the Shari'a from Jurists’ Law to Statutory Law in the Contemporary Muslim World

12. Islamic Law in the Modern World: Nationalization, lslamization, Reinstatement

Part 4 Waqf, Testamentary Waqf and Bequests

13. Waqfs of Awlad al-Nas in Aleppo in the Late Mamluk Period as Reflected in a Family Archive

14. Waqfs and Sufi Monasteries in the Ottoman Policy of Colonization: Sultan Selim I’s Waqf of 1516 in favour of Dayr al-Asad

15. The Maliki Family Waqf according to Wills and Waqfiyyat

16. The Family Waqf and the Shar'i Law of Succession in Modern Times

17. Bequests as an Instrument for accommodating Inheritance Rules: Israel as a Case Study

18. The Muslim Waqf in Israel

Part 5 Islamic Law in a Non-Muslim State

19. The Heritage of Ottoman Rule in the Israeli Legal System: The Concept of Umma and Millet

20. Adaptation of a Jurists’ Law to Modern Times in an Alien Environment: The Case of the Shari'a in Israel

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aharon Layish (1933-2022), Ph.D. (1973), Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has published extensively on modern trends in Islamic law with special reference to Israel; Islamization of tribal customary law in Libya and the Judean Desert; Muslim and Druze waqf and testamentary waqf; marriage, divorce, and succession in the Muslim and Druze family; the Mahdi’s legal methodology; and reinstatement of Islamic law in Sudan.