This book covers significant themes explaining the practice of
Islamic law. The first essay treats taqiyyah (literally,
"caution"), the concealment of one's religion when to reveal it
would incur danger, which is based on a Koranic passage. The author
provides not only a legal and religious analysis of taqiyyah, but
also, through the detailed examination of a prominent
sixteenth-century Shiite scholar and cleric, reveals a complex
pattern of behavior that allows Twelver Shi'is and other sectarian
groups to reduce the risks entailed by participation in societies
dominated by a Sunni majority. The second essay inquires into norms
for physical and sexual contacts between individuals, even husbands
and wives, defining rights to look, to touch, and even to mutilate.
The third essay evaluates the Ottoman records of local fines. This
report on legal regulations and their execution as well as on
practices of law and tradition in villages of Northern Palestine
creates a colorful picture of life in the sixteenth century.
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