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Social Custom as a Source of Law in Modern Muslim Societies

  • Ahmad A
Palgrave Macmillan US, (2009), 83-115
DOI: 10.1057/9780230619562_5
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… of the thesis that Islamic legal norms and social and cultural norms may irreconcilably diverge in … muhakkamah) established popular collective behavior as a virtual source of law in Sunni … ideas with next to no value without adoption by the Muslim populations. My reading of Ibn ‘…

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Ahmad, A. A. (2009). Social Custom as a Source of Law in Modern Muslim Societies. In Islam, Modernity, Violence, and Everyday Life (pp. 83–115). Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230619562_5

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