Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Note on Transliteration and Dates XIII
5. List of Figures and Tables XV
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1 Sharīʿa Courts in Iran before the Qajar Period 13
8. Chapter 2 The Sharīʿa Court of the Tammāmī Shaykh al-Islāms in Shiraz 45
9. Chapter 3 The Sharīʿa Court of Āqā Sayyid Ṣādiq Ṭabāṭabāʾī Sangalajī in Tehran 97
10. Chapter 4 The Validity of the Waqf of Luṭf ʿAlī Khān Turshīzī 151
11. Chapter 5 Resolving a Land Dispute in Astarābād 175
12. Chapter 6 Reviving the Waqf of Mīrzā Aḥmad Kafrānī 223
13. Conclusion: Assessing Judicial Decentralisation 251
14. Appendix 257
15. Bibliography 285
16. Index of Places 297
17. Index of People 299
18. Index of Technical Terms 303