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Volume No. 7 (109-112), 19. Februar 1919
Periodical
- Title:
- Asiatische Studien
- Parallelsachtitel:
- Etudes asiatiques
- Revue de la Société Suisse - Asie
- Publication:
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Boston, Mass. Berlin: De Gruyter
- Note:
- Erscheint viermal jährlich
- Gesehen am 18.05.2018
- Beteil Körp. anfangs: Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Asienkunde
- Scope:
- Online-Ressource
- ISSN:
- 2235-5871
- ZDB-ID:
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2610886-0
- VÖBB-Katalog:
- 14783917
- Keywords:
- Zeitschrift
- Classification:
- Fremdsprachige Bücher
- Geografie
- Geschichte
- Collection:
- Fremdsprachige Bücher
- Geografie
- Geschichte
- Copyright:
- Rights reserved
- Accessibility:
- Eingeschränkter Zugang mit Nutzungsbeschränkungen
Article
- Title:
- Judicial Practice as Islamic Law: The ʿAmal of Fez in Post-Classical Mālikī Legal Tradition
- Publication:
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Boston, Mass. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024
- Language:
- English
- Information:
- Abstract: ʿAmal (judicial practice) is a critical feature of post-classical Mālikī law in the Maghrib. The scholars who have examined ʿamal contend that it presents a paradigm of Mālikī law’s flexibility and judicial responsiveness to custom (ʿurf). However, ʿamal also constitute a significant part of the regional Islamic juristic literature produced from approximately the 17th to nineteenth centuries. In this article, I examine how ʿamal of Fez became not only widely practiced but part of the mainstream Mālikī jurisprudential discourse in Morocco. I argue that understanding Islamic law’s mechanisms for discursive stability is critical for its well-established capacity to change through principles like ʿamal. I do so by analyzing three practices that contravened the prevailing Mālikī rule yet were widely practiced as ʿamal of Fez: female witnesses for spousal defects, the ṣafqa unilateral shared property sale, and the lafīfiyya twelve-person testimony (plus a fourth “counter-example,” the abandonment of the mutual spousal cursing oath (liʿān), that reinforces the argument). I pay special attention to jurists’ discursive techniques for entrenching ʿamal in Mālikī history and precedence in classical substantive Mālikī rules. In the end, I call to acknowledge ʿamal’s inextricable status as Islamic law in Morocco and beyond.
- Scope:
- Online-Ressource
- Note:
- Kein Open Access
- Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
- Keywords:
- Mālikī law ; ʿamal (judicial practice) ; ʿurf (custom) ; qāḍī (judge) ; Morocco
- Classification:
- Fremdsprachige Bücher
- Geografie
- Geschichte
- Sonstiges
- Collection:
- Fremdsprachige Bücher
- Geografie
- Geschichte
- Sonstiges
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- Rights reserved
- Accessibility:
- Eingeschränkter Zugang mit Nutzungsbeschränkungen
