The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society by Lawrence Rosen

Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society

Lawrence Rosen

132 pages paperback 1989

1 edition

nonfiction politics sociology
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In this first full-scale study of the operations of a modern Islamic court of law in the Arabic-speaking world, the author examines the cultural foundations of judicial discretion. He shows how the analysis of legal systems requires an understandi...

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