The expert witness in Islamic courts : medicine and crafts in the service of law
Islam's tense relationship with modernity is one of the most crucial issues of our time. Within Islamic legal systems, with their traditional preference for eyewitness testimony, this struggle has played a significant role in attitudes toward expert witnesses. Utilizing a uniquely comparative a...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Between a witness, a reporter, and a judge : the probative status of the expert
- 2. The right hand of Qadis : male experts in judicial practice
- 3. Agents of patriarchy in the secluded world of women : females as expert witnesses
- 4. Continuity and reform : the Egyptian expert system in a comparative perspective
- 5. Revealing the secrets of the body : litigants, courts, and modern medicine in Egypt
- 6. From physiognomy to DNA testing : developments in the establishment of paternity