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Title: | An Islamic court in context: an ethnographic study of judicial reasoning |
Author: | Stiles, Erin E. |
Year: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | New York, NY |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Geographic terms: | Tanzania Zanzibar |
Subjects: | Islam Islamic law women |
Abstract: | Stiles utilizes in-depth ethnographic study of judicial reasoning and litigant activity in Islamic family court in Zanzibar, Tanzania to draw new and important conclusions on how people understand and use Islamic legal ideas in marital disputes. |