Words into Texts: Justice Politics and the Written Record at a Trial in Tunis in 1844
Paolo Xuereb, a Maltese migrant in Tunis in the mid nineteenth century, was tried for murder in the court of the Bey of Tunis. Two contemporary documents describing the trial exist. One is a translated (into English) “transcript” made by the US consulate, the other is an Arabic statement of the verd...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Islamic law and society
Year: 2015, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 375-412 |
Further subjects: | B
criminal trials
B Islamic Law B legal testimony B historical sources B Tunisia |
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