Yaacov Lev (Professor (Emeritus) Bar Ila in Middle Eastern Studies

Broschiertes Buch

The Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt

From the 7th to the 12th Century

Beschreibung

This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved during the 7th to the 9th centuries, which involved 4 judicial institutions: the cadi, the court of complaint, the police/shurta and the Islamized market law.

Autor

Yaacov Lev is Professor (Emeritus) in Middle Eastern Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He is author of several books including Saladin in Egypt (Brill, 1998), Charity, Endowments, and Charitable Institutions in Medieval Islam (University Press of Florida, 2006) and Towns and Material Culture in the Medieval Middle East (Brill, 2013). His most recent publications include articles in JSAI and Medieval Encounters, and a chapter in Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History, edited by Yuval Ben-Bassat (Brill, 2017).

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781474459242
• ISBN-10: 1474459242
• Artikelnr.: 62212957