God in the Courtroom
The Transformation of Courtroom Oath and Perjury between Islamic and Franco-Egyptian Law
Biographical note
Guy Bechor, LL.B. MA, Ph.D, is the head of the Middle Eastern Studies Division, Lauder School of Government, Strategy and Diplomacy, The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel, and a visiting fellow at the School of Law, the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard University. He is the author of The Sanhuri Code, and the Emergence of Modern Arab Civil Law (1932 to 1949) (Brill, 2007).
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All interested in Islamic law, Arab law, Egyptian law, comparative law, legal history, institutes, academic libraries, specialists of civil law systems, lawyers, postgraduate students, historians of the Middle East.
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English translations of modern legal documents from the Judean Desert cast light on the Islamization of the tribal customary law in the tribal judge’s precinct. This book is intended for students of Islamic law, of customary law and comparative law, legal, social and economic historians, and ...
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