Appeal - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Appeal - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Powers, David S.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060645
Doc. NO	:	ALei1042
Main Entry	:	Powers, David S.
Title & Author	:	Appeal - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Powers, David S.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,219 words)
Abstract	:	Appeal denotes both the right to question the validity of a judicial decision and the protocols for its reversal. Scholarly consensus for much of the twentieth century held that the decision (ḥukm) of a qāḍī is final and irrevocable, that a judge may not change his mind once he has rendered his decision, and that a judgement may not be reversed under any circumstances. According to Schacht (Introduction , 189; cf. Tyan), for example, “[T]here is no means of reversing an unjust judgement, because strict Islamic law does not recognise
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1042.pdf