The justice of Islam : comparative perspectives on Islamic law and society / Lawrence Rosen.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Islamic law -- Social aspects.

Islam and justice.

Islamic law.

Part 1. The socio-logic of Islamic legal reasoning: 1. Equity and discretion in Islamic law

2. Islamic case law and the logic of consequence

3. Islamic law as common law : power, culture, and the reconfiguration of legal taxonomies

4. Responsibility and compensatory justice in Arab culture and law

Part 2. In and out of court: 5. From courtroom to courtyard : law and custom in popular legal culture

6. On the docket : changing conventions in a Muslim court, 1965-1995

7. Local justice : a day in an alternative court

8. Whom do you trust? : Structuring confidence in Arab law and society

Part 3. Justice past and present: 9. Islamic concepts of justice and injustice

10. Muhammad's sociological jurisprudence

11. Private thoughts, public utterances : law, privacy, and the consequences for community

12. Islam and Islamic culture in the courts of the United States.

Includes index.

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xiii, 234 p.