Murder in the Market: Penal Aspects of Berber Customary Law in the Precolonial Moroccan Rif

Abstract This article focuses on the penal customary law of the Aith Waryaghar tribe of the Moroccan Rif in the immediate precolonial period during the two-plus decades prior to the emergence from their ranks of the former qādī bin ʿAbd al-Krim, the leader of the Rifian War of 1921-1926. In it are d...

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Main Author: Hart, David (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 1996
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 1996, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 343-371
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