TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bechor,Guy
TI  - God in the Courtroom: the Transformation of Courtroom Oath and Perjury Between Islamic and Franco-Egyptian Law
SN  - 9789004217515 (electronic bk.)
AV  - KRM1784 .B438 2011 
U1  - 347.6205 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Law
KW  - Egypt
KW  - French influences
KW  - Islamic infuences
KW  - Oaths
KW  - Oaths (Islamic law)
KW  - Islamic influences
KW  - LAW / Civil Procedure
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LAW / Legal Services
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Judicial Branch
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 18.3 The outcome of the curses procedure: Legal analysis; 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
N2  - 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
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