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What do you do when divine law and the justice demanded by your conscience clash? Muslims have wrestled with this problem since the earliest caliphates. The mazalim courts, dating back to the eighth century, were the answer: courts where any subject could appeal directly to an Islamic ruler regarding any matter of justice. Mazalim courts, which were not bound by the rulings of an established school of Islamic law, could address crises in authority and order that Shariah courts could not. Bestselling author Jonathan A.C. Brown unveils the history of mazalim courts, analyses the political, legal and theological thought of its tradition and contends that mazalim courts did not oppose or transcend Shariah. Mazalim courts allowed the state to step in and provide substantive justice when procedural justice failed its subjects.
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Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
Middle Eastern HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration and Dating
- Introduction: When Law and Justice Don’t Match
- 1. A History of Maẓālim Tribunals
- 2. From Baghdad to Istanbul: The Genealogy of a Maẓālim Treatise
- 3. A Post-Mongol Treatise on the Grievance Tribunal: A Translation of Jalāl al-Dīn Davānī’s Resāle dar dīvān-e maẓālem
- 4. Maẓālim and Questions of Procedure and Substantive Law
- 5. Can God’s Law Be Unjust? Equity and the Rights of God’s Servants
- Conclusion: Does the Maẓālim Tribunal Make Legal Reforms ‘Islamic’?
- Appendices
- Select Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright
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