Law, custom, and statute in the Muslim world: studies in honor of Aharon Layish

Preliminary material /R. Shaham -- Chapter One. The Mukhtaíar of Al-Khiraqī and its place in the formation of Ḥanbalī legal doctrine /Nimrod Hurvitz -- Chapter Two. Law and custom in the Maghrib, 1475–1500: On the disinheritance of women /David S. Powers -- Chapter Three. Women as expert witnesses in pre-modern islamic courts /Ron Shaham -- Chapter Four. Qāḍī, Muftī and ruler: Their roles in the development of islamic law /Miriam Hoexter -- Chapter Five. Ottoman Qāḍīs in DAMASCUS IN THE 16TH–18TH centuries /Michael Winter -- Chapter Six. Patronage, intervention and violence in the legal process in eighteenth-century Salonica and its province /Eyal Ginio -- Chapter Seven. Archaic forms of contract in Max Weber's theories and in Arab and Somali customary law /Frank H. Stewart -- Chapter Eight. Provincial judges: the Sharī'a judiciary of mid-twentieth-century Yemen /Brinkley Messick -- Chapter Nine. "All of Palestine is holy Muslim Waqf Land": A myth and its roots /Yitzhak Reiter -- Chapter Ten. Legal reform, interpretive communities and the quest for legitimacy: A contextual analysis of a legal circular /Ido Shahar -- List of contributors /R. Shaham -- Bibliography /R. Shaham -- Index /R. Shaham.