State, Society, and Law in Islam

State, Society, and Law in IslamThis book explores the legal structure of the Ottoman Empire between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries and examines its association with the Empire's sociopolitical structure. The author's main focus is on the relationship between formal Islamic law and the law as it was actually administered in seventeenth and eighteenth century Istanbul and its environs. Using court records, other primary archival documents, and little used Islamic

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This collection of essays from an international group of writers aims to bring greater critical attention to Levi's work by exploring all aspects of his oeuvre

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Focuses on the pivotal years of 1638–44 where debates around non-conformity within the Church of England morphed into a revolution between Parliament and its king

producing agonized works that challenged the key assumptions of socially engaged writing

This book explores retrogressive agrarian interventions by Pakistan’s military in the Punjab and details the social resentment and resistance it has initiated

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