By Ron Shaham

ISBN-10: 0226749339

ISBN-13: 9780226749334

Islam’s annoying courting with modernity is among the most important problems with our time. inside of Islamic felony platforms, with their conventional choice for eyewitness testimony, this fight has performed an important position in attitudes towards specialist witnesses. using a uniquely comparative method, Ron Shaham right here examines the evolution of the position of such witnesses in a few Arab nations from the premodern interval to the present.

Shaham starts off with a heritage of specialist testimony in medieval Islamic tradition, studying different roles performed by means of male specialists, particularly physicians and designers, and adult females, relatively midwives. From there, he specializes in the case of Egypt, tracing the country’s reform of its conventional criminal method alongside ecu traces starting within the past due 19th century. Returning to a broader point of view, Shaham attracts on various criminal and historic resources to put the phenomenon of professional testimony in cultural context. a really finished source, The specialist Witness in Islamic Courts can be sought out through a vast spectrum of students operating in historical past, faith, gender reports, and law.

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