An Islamic Court in Context: an ethnographic study of Judicial Reasoning
An Islamic Court in Context: an ethnographic study of Judicial Reasoning
Erin E. Stiles
Palgrave McMillan, New York, 2009, ix + 221 pp. ISBN 978-1-349-38044-2
Ann Black
 
True to its title, this book by legal anthropologist Erin Stiles, takes the reader to a religious court the village community of Mkokotoni on island of Unguja, Zanzibar. It offers an in-depth study on the way its kadhi (Islamic judge), court clerks and litigants view and employ Sheria na dini (religious law) to manage and resolve marital disputes.

 


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