Shari'a and Custom in Libyan Tribal Society

This volume presents annotated English translations of 72 court decisions handed down by the the Shari?a Courts of Adjabiya and Kufra roughly during the period 1930-1970; the original texts (facsimiles and edited documents) appeared in A.Layish, Legal Documents on Libyan Tribal Society in Process of Sedentarization (Wiesbaden, 1998). The documents address personal status, succession, homicide and bodily injury, property, obligation, and attest to the interaction between the shari?a representing