Yaacov Lev
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474459235
- eISBN:
- 9781474480789
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474459235.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This book discusses how justice was administrated and applied in medieval Egypt. The model that evolved during the early middle ages involved four judicial institutions: the cadi, the court of ...
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This book discusses how justice was administrated and applied in medieval Egypt. The model that evolved during the early middle ages involved four judicial institutions: the cadi, the court of complaints (mazalim), the police (shurta), responsible for criminal justice, and the Islamised market law (hisba), administrated by the market supervisor (the muhtasib). Literary and non-literary sources are used to highlight how these institutions worked in real-time situations such as the famine of 1024-1025, which posed tremendous challenges to both the market supervisor and the ruling establishment. The inner workings of the court of complaint during the Fatimid period (10th-12th century) are also extensively discussed. The discussion is extended to include the way the courts of non-Muslim communities were perceived and functioned during the Fatimid period. The discussion also provides insights into the scope of non-Muslim self-rule/judicial autonomy in medieval Islam.Less
This book discusses how justice was administrated and applied in medieval Egypt. The model that evolved during the early middle ages involved four judicial institutions: the cadi, the court of complaints (mazalim), the police (shurta), responsible for criminal justice, and the Islamised market law (hisba), administrated by the market supervisor (the muhtasib). Literary and non-literary sources are used to highlight how these institutions worked in real-time situations such as the famine of 1024-1025, which posed tremendous challenges to both the market supervisor and the ruling establishment. The inner workings of the court of complaint during the Fatimid period (10th-12th century) are also extensively discussed. The discussion is extended to include the way the courts of non-Muslim communities were perceived and functioned during the Fatimid period. The discussion also provides insights into the scope of non-Muslim self-rule/judicial autonomy in medieval Islam.
Yaacov Lev
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474459235
- eISBN:
- 9781474480789
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474459235.003.0009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
The chapter examines the medieval system of administration of justice in comparative framework and from longue durée perspective. The chapter also discusses the nature of medieval communal identities.
The chapter examines the medieval system of administration of justice in comparative framework and from longue durée perspective. The chapter also discusses the nature of medieval communal identities.
Cynthia S. Hamilton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719096952
- eISBN:
- 9781781708729
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719096952.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter looks at the way Paretsky constructs her social landscape of changing neighbourhoods, where tensions and power struggles threaten fractures along lines of class, race, and ethnicity. It ...
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This chapter looks at the way Paretsky constructs her social landscape of changing neighbourhoods, where tensions and power struggles threaten fractures along lines of class, race, and ethnicity. It examines the way communities, as opposed to geographical neighbourhoods, define their boundaries and reinforce their sense of communal identity. Paretsky constructs idealised versions of community and family as nurturing, therapeutic environments; these are then used to critique coercive power dynamics and abusive relationships. Her portrait of Chicago’s neighbourhoods and communities is informed by the ideals she imbibed from her involvement in the second wave of the feminist movement and by her observations as a community organiser and volunteer. Within this complex landscape—part theoretically conceived, part reflection of the city she closely observes—her detective’s marginality is defined, a marginality that has particular political possibilities and implications.Less
This chapter looks at the way Paretsky constructs her social landscape of changing neighbourhoods, where tensions and power struggles threaten fractures along lines of class, race, and ethnicity. It examines the way communities, as opposed to geographical neighbourhoods, define their boundaries and reinforce their sense of communal identity. Paretsky constructs idealised versions of community and family as nurturing, therapeutic environments; these are then used to critique coercive power dynamics and abusive relationships. Her portrait of Chicago’s neighbourhoods and communities is informed by the ideals she imbibed from her involvement in the second wave of the feminist movement and by her observations as a community organiser and volunteer. Within this complex landscape—part theoretically conceived, part reflection of the city she closely observes—her detective’s marginality is defined, a marginality that has particular political possibilities and implications.
