Islamic Jurisprudence and Social Dependency in a Premodern Saharan Oasis Society

This paper investigates the role of Islamic jurisprudence in creating and sustaining forms of social dependency in the oases of Tuwāt (in present-day southern Algeria). Drawing upon a series of fatwās collections compiled between 1750 and 1850, I examine how Saharan legal scholars reinforced the str...

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Main Author: Warscheid, Ismail (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2024, Volume: 64, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 168-196
Further subjects:B Saharan manuscripts
B Saharan west
B trans-Saharan slavery
B Islamic Law
B khammāsa
B Haratin
B Algeria
B Fatwā
B precolonial North Africa
B Tuwāt
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