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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2024
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Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2024, Volume: 64, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 168-196 |
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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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