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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Authors: Pennell, Richard (Author) ; Saeed, Abdullah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: 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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