Interplay between Tribal and Sharī Law: A Case of Tibbāwī Blood Money in the Sharīa Court of Kufra

Abstract In the early 1940s the Sharīa Court of Kufra (Libya) issued a legal document dealing with a blood money dispute among the Tibāwī tribe. I provide here an annotated translation of this document together with an analysis of the interaction between sharia and customary law. Although the court...

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Main Author: Layish, Aharon (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2006
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 2006, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-75
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