On the Development of Custom as a Source of Law in Islamic Law: Al-rujū'u ilā al-'urfi ahadu al-qawā'idi al-khamsi allatī yatabannā 'alayhā al-fiqhu

Islamic Law and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 131-155

  Libson, Gideon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 85064272848     PISSN: 09289380     EISSN: 15685195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568519972599770     Document Type: Review

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4. Gideon Libson, Geonic Custom and its Relationship to Islamic Law (forthcoming).
5. G. Libson, "Halakhah and Law in the Period of the Geonim," in An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law, ed. N.S. Hecht, B.S. Jackson, S.M. Passamaneck, D. Piattelli, and A.M. Rabello (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), pp. 197-242.
6. Coulson, "Muslim Custom and Case-Law," 17.
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8. J. Makdisi, "Legal Logic," 63 ff.
9. The Medjelle of Ottoman Civil Law, transl.W. E. Grigsby (London, 1895).