TY - BOOK ID - 77933411 TI - Sharīʼa [i.e. Sharīʻa] and custom in Libyan tribal society PY - 2005 SN - 1280867086 9786610867080 1429427280 9047406265 1433704382 9781429427289 9789004140820 9004140824 9004140824 9781280867088 6610867089 9789047406266 9781433704383 PB - Leiden Boston, Mass. Brill DB - UniCat KW - Islamic law KW - Customary law KW - Customs (Law) KW - Folk law KW - Usage and custom (Law) KW - Social norms KW - Common law KW - Time immemorial (Law) KW - Civil law (Islamic law) KW - Law, Arab KW - Law, Islamic KW - Law in the Qurʼan KW - Sharia (Islamic law) KW - Shariʻah (Islamic law) KW - Law, Oriental KW - Law, Semitic KW - Islamic law. KW - Libya KW - Kufra Oases KW - Law, Primitive KW - Traditional law UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77933411 AB - This volume presents annotated English translations of 72 court decisions handed down by the the Sharīʿa Courts of Adjābiya and Kufra roughly during the period 1930-1970; the original texts (facsimiles and edited documents) appeared in A.Layish, Legal Documents on Libyan Tribal Society in Process of Sedentarization (Wiesbaden, 1998). The documents address personal status, succession, homicide and bodily injury, property, obligation, and attest to the interaction between the sharīʿa representing normative Islam, and tribal customary law, representing social reality in Cyrenaica during the aforementioned period. They also exemplify the qadi 's role of bringing a Bedouin society within the orbit of normative Islam. A.Borg's essay Orality, Languages, and Culture in Arabic Juridical Discourse addresses cultural aspects of orality on the language of these documents. The study is intended for Orientalists, Islamologists, legal and social historians, social scientists, and lawyers interested in Islamic and comparative law. ER -