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Divorce in the Libyan Family: A Study Based on the Sijills of the Shari'ah Courts of Ajdabiyya and Kufra. By Aharon Layish. New York: New York University Press1991. Pp. xxiii, 236. Price not available. ISBN: 0-814-75053-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Knut S. Vikør
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 15 , 2001 , pp. 491 - 494
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2000

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References

1. All citations in the text refer to the book under review.

2. Moors, Annelies, Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences, 1920-1990 at 139–142 (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press 1995)Google Scholar.

3. Layish has worked closely together with Davis, who originally photographed the records; see introduction to Layish, , Legal Documents on Libyan Tribal Society in Process of Sedementarization 7–13 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1998)Google Scholar, which presents the Arabic text of many of the records discussed here.