the Transformation of Courtroom Oath and Perjury Between Islamic and Franco-Egyptian Law Bechor, Guy. creator text Electronic books. ne Leiden BRILL 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (428 p.) This volume compares the courtroom oaths of both Islamic and modern Egyptian legal systems, blending elements of legal history, comparative law, theology, philosophy and culture. Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Mutual Functionality between Legal History and Comparative Law; 2. Egyptian Law and Its Arab Weight; 3. Methodology and the Art of Borrowing; 4. Types of Courtroom Oaths; Chapter One The Courtroom Oath in Islamic Law, Theory and Practice; 1. Islamic Law and Methodology: Legal History and Historical Law; 2. Intimate Involvement of God; 2.1 The meaning of power; 2.2 Triple impact of anxiety; 3. The Islamic Courtroom Oath as a Source of Legal Determination; 3.1 The courtroom oath and the legal right. 3.2 The binary approach: between the bayyina and the oath3.3 Criticism of the binary approach; 3.4 The paradox of the badhl and the restriction of the oath; 4. The Types and Modalities of Islamic Oath; 4.1 The manifestation of the oath; 4.2 The interpretation of the future oath--objective or subjective; 4.3 Extra-legal considerations; 5. The Technique of the Courtroom Oath; 6. The Positions of the Schools on the Subject of the Courtroom Oath: Malikites versus Hanafites; 7. The Illusive Mental Dimension of the Islamic Courtroom Oath. 8. The Scope of the Courtroom Oath: Issues That May Form the Subject of an Oath9. A Confrontation between Forms of Proof and Legal Determination: The Oath versus the Bayyina; 10. The Defendant and the Courtroom Oath; 10.1 Affinity (khult?a); 11. The Rerendering of the Oath and the Burden of Proof; 11.1 The development of dynamic revision; 12. The Paradox of Mutual Plaintiffs and Defendants (tah?aluf); 12.1 The lot (qur'a) as a tool for courtroom determination; 13. Cases in which the Plaintiff Takes the Oath: A Conceptual Challenge for the Hanafites. 13.1 Rendering the oath to the plaintiff when the defendant cannot defend himself (yamin al-qad?a', yamin al-'istiz?har)13.2 The course and outcomes of the judicial oath; 13.3 The oath in a h?isba suit--between human and divine order; 13.4 The oath with a single witness; 13.5 An oath cannot be made regarding an unknown matter; 14. Judicial Discretion and the Decisive Oath; 14.1 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya: from form to content; 14.2 Restricted judicial space; 14.3 Inspection of the legal competence of the parties; 14.4 The mute's oath: when both verbal intention and inner intention are concealed. 15. Can the Defendant Guide the Wording of the Oath in His Favor?15.1 Redemption of an oath ('iftida') as avoidance of danger; 16. A Religious Element in the Service of Law: The Intensification of the Oath; 16.1 The text; 16.2 Means of swearing on the Qur'an; 16.3 Repetition; 16.4 Way of ceremony (h?al); 16.5 The dimension of place; 16.6 The dimension of time; 16.7 Non-Muslim; 17. The Testimonial Oath; 18. Special Types of Oaths: Curses (li'an) and Qasama; 18.1 The terrible story of 'Uwaymar and his wife Khawla; 18.2 Management of the curse procedure: the ceremony. 18.3 The outcome of the curses procedure: Legal analysis. Law Egypt French influences Law Egypt Islamic infuences Oaths Egypt Oaths (Islamic law) Egypt Law Oaths Egypt Oaths (Islamic law) Egypt Law Egypt French influences Law Egypt Islamic influences LAW / Civil Procedure LAW / Legal Services POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Judicial Branch KRM1784 .B438 2011 347.6205 Bechor, Guy Leiden : BRILL, c2011 9789004217515 (electronic bk.) 9004217517 (electronic bk.) http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=832328 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=420229 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=832328 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=420229 EBLCP 120102 20200709055450.0 ocn769927278 eng