A Legal Sunna in Dhikr Ḥaqqs from Sufyanid Egypt
This article presents the edition of a legal document from c. 44/664–5, written in Arabic, that records a woman’s debt of a third of a dinar. It is the oldest preserved original of its kind. A study of the formulary of this document and contemporary copies of similar documents reveals a hitherto ove...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Islamic law and society
Year: 2015, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 352-374 |
Further subjects: | B
Sufyanid Egypt
B validity clause B early Muslim community B legal documents and formularies |
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Summary: | This article presents the edition of a legal document from c. 44/664–5, written in Arabic, that records a woman’s debt of a third of a dinar. It is the oldest preserved original of its kind. A study of the formulary of this document and contemporary copies of similar documents reveals a hitherto overlooked validity clause which states that the recorded financial transactions are in accordance with ‘the normative procedure of the believers’ (sunnat qaḍāʾ al-muʾminīn). This clause gives documentary evidence for the existence of ideas about legal identity among the Muslim community in Egypt as early as the beginning of Umayyad rule. |
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ISSN: | 1568-5195 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Islamic law and society
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685195-00224p02 |