The Islamic Law of Pearling: Ritual Obligation and Economic Practice in the Arabian Gulf, ca. 1910–1940
In the first half of the twentieth century, the legal landscape of the Arabian sheikhdoms was pluralistic and fragmented. The legal actors who settled disputes included local rulers, qāḍīs, pearl merchants, tribal shaykhs, and British officials. Drawing on fatwas and correspondence between religious...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Islamic law and society
Year: 2022, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 457-494 |
Further subjects: | B
Salafism
B Debt B pearl trade B diving courts B sharī‘a B Ramadan B Usury B Capitalism |
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