Legal Pluralism in the Holy City
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Family Court
Family Court Law
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Id Al Adha
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Islamic family law
Israeli Legal System
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Jordanian Courts
Judicial Circular
Legal Pluralism
Legal Pluralistic Environment
Maintenance Payments
Matrimonial Dispute
matters
Middle East legal systems
Muslim Jerusalemites
Muslim Litigants
Organizational Fields
Palestinian Courts
Palestinian minority rights
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Personal Status Matters
Qadi Al Quda
shari'a court jurisdiction dynamics
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West Jerusalem
Women's Equal Rights Law
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- ISBN 9781138701625
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jan 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book provides an unprecedented portrayal of a lively shari'a court in contemporary West Jerusalem, which belongs to the Israeli legal system but serves Palestinian residents of the eastern part of the city. It draws a rich picture of an intriguing institution, operating in an environment marked by legal pluralism and by exceptional political and cultural tensions. The book suggests an organizational-institutional approach to legal pluralism, which examines not only the relations between bodies of law but also the relations between courts of law serving the same population. Based on participant observations in the studied court as well as on textual and legal analyses of court cases and rulings, the study combines history and ethnography, diachronic and synchronic perspectives, and examines broad, macro-political processes as well as micro-level interactions. The book offers fresh perspectives on the phenomenon of legal pluralism, on shari'a law in practice and on Palestinian-Israeli relations in the divided city of Jerusalem. The work is a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal Pluralism, Islamic Law, and socio-legal history of the Middle East.
Ido Shahar is Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa. He is a legal anthropologist and a social historian, specializing in the study of shari'a courts and of Palestinian society. He has published extensively on legal pluralism, on shari'a courts in Israel, and on Palestinians in Israel.
