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Criminal Justice and the Police
Yaacov Lev
in The Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt: From the 7th to the 12th Century
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474459235
- eISBN:
- 9781474480789
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474459235.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
In Fatimid Fustat-Cairo the shurta was a police force responsible for fighting crime and its chiefs dispensed criminal justice. How the shurta and its chiefs operated in Fustat of the 1020s is ... More
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