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Law in the Middle East. Volume I: Origin and Development of Islamic Law
Law in the Middle East. Volume I: Origin and Development of Islamic Law
By Majid Khadduri and Herbert J. Liebesny
Middle East Institute, 1955, 395 pp

More than a dozen leading scholars have contributed to this valuable study of the origins and development of Islamic law. It is hoped that a second volume on modern legal systems in the Middle East will follow.

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