Property Social Structure And Law In The Modern Middle East

Author : Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0873959884

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Property, Social Structure, and Law in the Modern Middle East by Ann Elizabeth Mayer Pdf

For too long the study of law and society in the modern Middle East has been left to specialists in narrow subcategories of law or the social sciences. Property, Social Structure, and Law in the Modern Middle East lays the groundwork for a new field of scholarship in which analysis of the social dimensions of law and the legal dimensions of social structure are integrated. It offers the stimulus of a variety of new models of scholarship by a distinguished international group of contributors whose work shares a common focus on regimes of property in the societies of the modern Middle East. The case studies examine the regulations of many kinds of property in relation to the social structures of selected Middle Eastern communities form the eighteenth century to the present. Most of the societies studied are subjected to pressures for rapid modernization and adjustment to major economic transformations. The book features comparisons of property rights and relations under regimes of Islamic and customary law as well as modern statutory law. Highlighted are new patterns of intervention by modern Middle Eastern states to alter traditional regimes of property and to transform the accompanying social structures. Their implications for development are also considered. The book's notes and bibliographies constitute a valuable resource for anyone interested in further research.

Author : Laila Al-Zwaini,Ruud Peters
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004492660

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A Bibliography of Islamic Law, 1980-1993 by Laila Al-Zwaini,Ruud Peters Pdf

This bibliography offers a new and indispensable tool for both researchers and practitioners in the field of Islamic law. It supplements the bibliographies published by Joseph Schacht (1964) and John Makdisi (1987) and includes some 1,600 Western-language publications which have appeared between 1980 and 1993. It contains a general and a regional section. With regard to the latter, the main focus is on the Middle East (including Afghanistan and North Africa), although publications in South and Southeast Asia have also been included. In order to facilitate its use, an authors' index and a subject index have been added.

Author : Haim Gerber
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1555875092

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The Social Origins of the Modern Middle East by Haim Gerber Pdf

Author : Nezar AlSayyad
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000787894

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Routledge Handbook on Cairo by Nezar AlSayyad Pdf

This Handbook simultaneously provides a single text that narrates the Cairo of yesterday and of today, and gives the reader a major reference to the best of Cairo scholarship. Divided into three parts covering Histories, Representations and Discourses of Cairo, the chapters provide comprehensive coverage of Cairo from both a disciplinary and an interdisciplinary point of view, with scholars from a great range of disciplines. Part One contains chapters on the history of specific parts of the city to provide both a concise picture of Cairo and an appreciation for the diversity of its constituent parts and periods. Part Two of the book deals with the various forms of representations of the city, from high-end literature to popular songs, and from photographs to films. Finally, Part Three covers current discourses about the city, comprising historical reflections on the city from the present, surveys of its current condition, analysis of it serious urban problems and visions for its future. The Routledge Handbook on Cairo provides a unique and innovative look at the ever-evolving state of Cairo. It will be a vital reference source for scholars and students of Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East History, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies, Architecture and Politics.

Author : Daisy Hilse Dwyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990-09-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780313033674

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Law and Islam in the Middle East by Daisy Hilse Dwyer Pdf

Islamic law is the epitome of Islamic thought, the most typical manifestation of the Islamic way of life, the core and kernel of Islam itself, asserts Joseph Schacht the internationally renowed Islamic law scholar. Indeed, the primary place of law in Islam as well as the preponderance of the legal over the theological in Muslim thinking has long been recognized by both Muslim jurisprudents and by Western legal scholars. At a time when Islamic fundamentalism is flourishing, the relation of religion in and to law-related behavior needs to be scrutinized. In its eight chapters, contributed by various experts in the field and with a cogent introduction by editor Daisy Hilse Dwyer that focuses on the sources of law, the reasons for its centrality in the Middle East, and personal status law, this volume considers Middle Eastern law as practiced by Muslims in a diversity of Middle Eastern nations. The dynamics of dispute settlement, the interaction of court personnel with litigants, the content of legislation, and the promulgation of public policies about law are detailed here as well as the power dynamics of law's interpersonal, intergroup, and international sides. Focusing on the specifics of contemporary politics and social life, the volume provides a baseline for understanding how, and the degree to which, the legal principles and the legal ethos elaborated in Islam centuries ago continue to provide a vital dynamic in legal behavior and thinking today. The first five chapters deal with the on-the-ground intricacies of personal status law. They detail the complex blend of options and constraints that Middle Easterners experience in confronting personal status issues and examine the different approaches to these issues by contrasting regional evironments and differentially empowered social groups. The last three chapters assess law in the public domain-an area in which the most striking recent applications of Islamic law have occurred. Law and Islam in the Middle East will be of particular value to international law experts, students of Islam, comparative law, and the Middle East, as well as practicing social scientists and others who seek a practical and philosophical understanding of how the spirit and letter of Islamic law constitute and reconstitute themselves with a fine-tuned responsiveness to a continuously changing nation and world.

Author : Roger Owen
Publisher : Harvard CMES
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0932885268

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New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East by Roger Owen Pdf

Land was the major economic resource in the pre-modern Middle East. Questions of ownership, of access, of management and of control occupied a central role in administration, in law, and in rural practice over many centuries. Nevertheless, the subject of land and property relations is still not well understood.

Author : Aharon Layish
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004680920

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Islamic Law, Tribal Customary Law and Waqf by Aharon Layish Pdf

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 Ṣūfī and Salafī traditions or Western law, and the emergence of an Israeli version of Islamic law.

Author : Hilary Lim
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781848137202

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Land, Law and Islam by Hilary Lim Pdf

In this pioneering work Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights, drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary resources. They address the significance of Islamic theories of property and Islamic land tenure regimes on the 'webs of tenure' prevalent in the Muslim societies. They consider the possibility of using Islamic legal and human rights systems for the development of inclusive, pro-poor approaches to land rights. They also focus on Muslim women's rights to property and inheritance systems. Engaging with institutions such as the Islamic endowment (waqf) and principles of Islamic microfinance, they test the workability of 'authentic' Islamic proposals. Located in human rights as well as Islamic debates, this study offers a well researched and constructive appraisal of property and land rights in the Muslim world.

Author : Laura Nader
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780520229884

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The Life of the Law by Laura Nader Pdf

Nader traces the evolution of the plaintiff's role in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century and convincingly argues that the atrophy of the plaintiff's power during this period undermines democracy.".

Author : June Starr,Jane F. Collier
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781501723322

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History and Power in the Study of Law by June Starr,Jane F. Collier Pdf

Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the ‘legal’ as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who suggest that the subfield is dying and advocate a reintegration of legal anthropology into a renewed general anthropology. Chapters by anthropologists, sociologists, and law professors, using anthropological rather than legal methodologies, provide original analyses of particular legal developments. Some contributors adopt an interpretative approach, focusing on law as a system of meaning; others adopt a materialistic approach, analyzing the economic and political forces that historically shaped relations between social groups. Contributors include Said Armir Arjomand, Anton Blok, Bernard Cohn, George Collier, Carol Greenhouse, Sally Falk Moore, Laura Nader, June Nash, Lawrence Rosen, June Starr, and Joan Vincent.

Author : Margaret L. Meriwether
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292752245

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The Kin Who Count by Margaret L. Meriwether Pdf

The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently answers. Who lived together in the household? Who married whom and for how long? Who got a piece of the patrimonial pie? These are the questions that Margaret Meriwether investigates in this groundbreaking study of family life among the upper classes of the Ottoman Empire in the pre-modern and early modern period. Meriwether recreates Aleppo family life over time from records kept by the Islamic religious courts that held jurisdiction over all matters of family law and property transactions. From this research, she asserts that the stereotype of the large, patriarchal patrilineal family rarely existed in reality. Instead, Aleppo's notables organized their families in a great diversity of ways, despite the fact that they were all members of the same social class with widely shared cultural values, acting under the same system of family law. She concludes that this had important implications for gender relations and demonstrates that it gave women more authority and greater autonomy than is usually acknowledged.

Author : Thomas K. Park,James B.Greenberg
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498545822

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The Roots of Western Finance by Thomas K. Park,James B.Greenberg Pdf

The Roots of Western Finance takes an anthropological approach to origins of western finance and credit in ancient societies, covering a period from ancient Mesopotamia to the Islamic world in the eleventh century. The authors reveal that credit is not simply an economic transaction; it is a social relationship and a technology of power.

Author : Baber Johansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315312590

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The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent by Baber Johansen Pdf

This book, first published in 1988, argues that a close inspection of the development of Hanafite law in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods reveals changes in legal doctrine which were not restricted to civil transactions but also concerned the public law. It focuses in particular on the interrelated areas of property, rent and taxation of arable lands, arguing that changes in the relationship between tax and rent led to a redefinition of the concept of landed property, a concept at the very heart of the Islamic legal system. This title will be of particular interest to students of Islamic history.

Author : Rik Pinxten,Ellen Preckler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1845450884

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Racism in Metropolitan Areas by Rik Pinxten,Ellen Preckler Pdf

For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred againt those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and urban areas, this volume presents the views of international scholars who work in the social sciences and statements by non-practicing academics such as journalists and policy makers. The contributions of the scientists and the non-academic specialists are grouped around common themes, highlighting existing debates and bringing together widely scattered information. The book explores the ways in which old forms of racism persist in the urban context, and how traditional exclusion systems like casteism can be likened to contemporary forms like racism directed at refugees.

Author : Laura Nader
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118319024

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Culture and Dignity by Laura Nader Pdf

In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a more peaceful co-existence. Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on the myriad connections between peoples—especially the critical intercultural dialogues between the cultures of the East and the West Takes an historical and ethnographic approach to studying the intermingling of Arab peoples and the West. Demonstrates how cultural exchange between the East and West is a two-way process Presents an anthropological perspective on issues such as religious fundamentalism, the lives of women and children, notions of violence and order