Article: Sharecropping in the Yemen: A Study in Islamic Theory, Custom and Pragmatism

Sharecropping in the Yemen: A Study in Islamic Theory, Custom and Pragmatism. By WILLIAM J. DONALDSON. Studies in Islamic Law and Society, vol. 13. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. xvii + 278.

Over the past two decades the number of academic studies on Yemen's culture and history has expanded from hardly any to over two dozen important monographs. Donaldson's detailed analysis of sharecropping in Islamic law and Yemeni practice is a welcome addition. Sharecropping, for Donaldson, is "a system of leasing in which the rent is expressed as a proportion of the harvest (such as a half or a quarter) rather than as an absolute value (such as a certain fixed monetary amount or ...

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