State, Society, and Law in Islam: Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective
Haim Gerber, "State, Society, and Law in Islam: Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective"
1994 | pages: 236 | ISBN: 0791418774, 0791418782 | PDF | 7,9 mb
1994 | pages: 236 | ISBN: 0791418774, 0791418782 | PDF | 7,9 mb
Gerber's well-known, may soon to be out-of-print, is a classic work on Islamic law, especially in the Ottoman, know particulary for its contention with and attempts to refute the claim of Weber that Islamic or `kadi-law' was a major obstacle to modernizing of Islamic societies generally. Using the court-records of Bursa as a principal, albeit limited when discussing an empire-wide issue, source, Gerber mainly takes an apologetic tone throughout the work in defense of the Ottoman legal system against its Weberian critics.
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