MUSLIM ORPHANS AND THE SHARĪ'A IN OTTOMAN PALESTINE ACCORDING TO SIJILL RECORDS

Abstract According to sharī'a, an orphan is an under-aged infant or child, until the age of puberty, whose father or both his/her parents have died. In the sijill cases (Muslim court records) under study here, under-aged children who lost their mother are not defined as orphans. This way of def...

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Main Author: Yazbak, Mahmoud (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2001
In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
Year: 2001, Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 123-140
Further subjects:B SHARI'A
B GUARDIANSHIP
B YATIM
B WISAYA
B Charity
B 19TH CENTURY PALESTINE
B SADAQA
B ORPHAN
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