Ethics, tradition, authority: Toward an anthropology of the fatwa

American Ethnologist

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-18

  Ali Agrama, Hussein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 76249083427     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01238.x     Document Type: Article

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