Justice and leadership in early Islamic courts / edited by Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale.

"The papers in this volume largely arise out of proceedings from a conference organized in honor of Professor Roy Mottahedeh upon the occasion of his retirement"--Page viii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-230) and index.

I. Judicial procedure and practice during the founding period of Islamic law. Section introduction / William Graham -- Chapter 1. The logic of excluding testimony in early Islam / Ahmed El Shamsy -- Chapter 2. Circumstantial evidence in the administration of Islamic justice / Hossein Modarressi -- Chapter 3. The curious case of Bughaybigha, 661-883 : land and leadership in early Islamic societies / Intisar A. Rabb -- Chapter 4. A critique of adjudication : formative moments in early Islamic legal history / Nahed Samour -- II. Concepts of justice in the ʻAbbāsid East. Section introduction / Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale -- Chapter 5. Words of ʻajam in the world of Arab : translation and translator in early Islamic judicial procedure / Mahmood Kooria -- Chapter 6. The Judge and the judge : the heavenly and earthly court of justice in early Islam / Christian Lange -- Chapter 7. Justice, judges, and the law in three Arabic mirrors for princes, 8th-11th centuries / Louise Marlow -- III. Judges and judicial practice in the Islamic West: Section introduction / Michael Cook -- Chapter 8. Joking judges : a view from the medieval Islamic West / Maribel Fierro -- Chapter 9. Judicial procedure and legal practice on liʻān (imprectory oath) in al-Andalus : evidence from model shurūṭ collections, 11th-12th Centuries / Delfina Serrano -- Supplement: Reading with Roy : the scholarly output of Professor Roy Mottahedeh: Section introduction / Cemal Kafadar.