Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Aharon Layish -- Copyright Page / Aharon Layish -- Dedication / Aharon Layish -- In Memoriam: Aharon Layish (1933-2022) / Ron Shaham and David S. Powers -- Acknowledgments / Aharon Layish -- Note from the Publisher / Aharon Layish -- Introduction: The Legal Document as a Source of Legal and Social History / Aharon Layish -- Part 1 Interplay between Sharīʿa and Tribal Law -- Chapter 1 Customary khulʿ as Reflected in the sijill of the Libyan Sharīʿa Courts / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 2 Interplay between Tribal and Sharʿī Law: A Case of Tibbāwī Blood Money in the Sharīʿa Court of Kufra / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 3 Shahādat naql in the Judicial Practice in Modern Libya / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 4 Islamization of Custom as Reflected in Awards of Tribal Arbitrators in the Judaean Desert / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 5 The Qāḍī 's Role in the Islamization of Sedentary Tribal Society / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 6 Dār ʿadl - Symbiosis of Custom and Sharīʿa in a Tribal Society in Process of Sedentarization / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 7 The fatwā as an Instrument of the Islamization of a Tribal Society in Process of Sedentarization / Aharon Layish -- Part 2 Legal Methodologies in Sudan -- Chapter 8 The Sudanese Mahdī's Legal Methodology and its Ṣūfī Inspiration / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 9 The Legal Methodology of the Mahdi in the Sudan, 1881-1885: Issues in Marriage and Divorce / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 10 Ḥasan al-Turābī (1932-) / Aharon Layish -- Part 3 Modern Trends in Islamic Law -- Chapter 11 The Transformation of the Sharīʿa from Jurists' Law to Statutory Law in the Contemporary Muslim World / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 12 Islamic Law in the Modern World: Nationalization, lslamization, Reinstatement / Aharon Layish -- Part 4 Waqf , Testamentary Waqf and Bequests -- Chapter 13 Waqf s of Awlād al-Nās in Aleppo in the Late Mamlūk Period as Reflected in a Family Archive / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 14 Waqf s and Ṣūfī Monasteries in the Ottoman Policy of Colonization: Sulṭān Selīm I 's Waqf of 1516 in Favour of Dayr al-Asad / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 15 The Mālikī Family Waqf according to Wills and Waqfiyyāt / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 16 The Family Waqf and the Sharʿī Law of Succession in Modern Times / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 17 Bequests as an Instrument for Accommodating Inheritance Rules: Israel as a Case Study / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 18 The Muslim Waqf in Israel / Aharon Layish -- Part 5 Islamic Law in a Non-Muslim State -- Chapter 19 The Heritage of Ottoman Rule in the Israeli Legal System: The Concept of Umma and Millet / Aharon Layish -- Chapter 20 Adaptation of a Jurists' Law to Modern Times in an Alien Environment: The Case of the Sharīʿa in Israel / Aharon Layish -- Back Matter -- Index / Aharon Layish.

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.

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