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Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their Judgments. Edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters and David Stephan Powers. Brill Academic Publishers2005. Pp. 608. $211.00. ISBN: 9-004-14067-0.

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Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their Judgments. Edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters and David Stephan Powers. Brill Academic Publishers2005. Pp. 608. $211.00. ISBN: 9-004-14067-0.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , 2008 , pp. 311 - 315
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2008

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