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Domestic relations --- Domestic relations (Islamic law) --- History --- -Domestic relations --- Families --- Family law --- Marriage --- Persons (Law) --- Sex and law --- Aḥwāl al-shakhṣīyah (Islamic law) --- Islamic law --- Law and legislation --- -History --- Domestic relations - Egypt - History --- Domestic relations (Islamic law) - Egypt

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Islam's tense relationship with modernity is one of the most crucial issues of our time. Within Islamic legal systems, with their traditional preference for eyewitness testimony, this struggle has played a significant role in attitudes toward expert witnesses. Utilizing a uniquely comparative approach, Ron Shaham here examines the evolution of the role of such witnesses in a number of Arab countries from the premodern period to the present. Shaham begins with a history of expert testimony in medieval Islamic culture, analyzing the different roles played by male experts, especially physicians and architects, and females, particularly midwives. From there, he focuses on the case of Egypt, tracing the country's reform of its traditional legal system along European lines beginning in the late nineteenth century. Returning to a broader perspective, Shaham draws on a variety of legal and historical sources to place the phenomenon of expert testimony in cultural context. A truly comprehensive resource, The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts will be sought out by a broad spectrum of scholars working in history, religion, gender studies, and law.

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This collective volume, in honor of Aharon Layish, deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: sharīʿa , custom, and statute. Some chapters focus on one of these components, other discuss the interplay between two or even all three of them. The geographical coverage of the volume is wide, from the Balkans to Yemen, and from Iraq to the Maghrib. The chapters are based on a variety of sources: fiqh literature, fatwās , court decisions, judicial circulars, biographical dictionaries and chronics. The volume will be of special interest to historians, social scientists and lawyers working on Islamic and Israeli laws, and to those interested in gender studies, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Islamic cultures at large.

Islamitisch recht. --- Droit coutumier (Droit islamique) --- Droit islamique --- Justice --- Islam --- Islamisches Recht --- Islamic law --- Histoire. --- Administration (Droit islamique) --- Recht --- Geschichte --- History. --- Layish, Aharon --- Layiš, Aharôn --- Islamitische wereld. --- Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) --- Customary law (Islamic law)