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Article: Divorce in the Libyan Family: A Study Based on the sijills of the Sharia Courts of Ajdabiyya and Kufra.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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This study provides a welcome addition to the growing number of works on the practice of Islamic law in the twentieth century. It is based on two sets of legal records (sijill) from sharfa courts in Cyrenaica: those of the town of Ajdabiyya in the north, and those of the Kufra Oases in the south. The records from Ajdabiyya cover a period of thirty years (1942-73) and those from Kufra, a period of forty years (1932-73). In his preface, Layish explains that "[T]he purpose of the book is to describe and analyze, from the angle of the sharfa court, divorce in a tribal society in process of sedentarization, against the background of the contest between sharfa and custom" p. ...