The "first" qudāt of Fusṭāṭ and the dynamics of judicial innovation (750-850 CE)

Mathieu Tillier (1, 2)

1 IFPO - Institut Français du Proche-Orient
2 IREMAM - Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans

This paper recounts the judicial innovations that developed in Egypt during the early Abbasid caliphate, through an analysis of qāḍī-s who were the first to adopt a legal practice.

Mots clés: judges; qadis; Islamic law; courts; Abbasids; testimony

Domaines: Histoire

Mathieu Tillier. The "first" qudāt of Fusṭāṭ and the dynamics of judicial innovation (750-850 CE). 2010. ⟨halshs-00820715⟩