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" Courts of law, Mughal - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Chatterjee, Nandini
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AL
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English
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1061315
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ALei1712
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Chatterjee, Nandini
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Courts of law, Mughal - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Chatterjee, Nandini
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,820 words)
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Mughal courts of law included various tribunals, from the court of the classical Islamic judge, the qāḍī , to Brahmin assemblies, merchant associations, village councils, and the courts of nobles, princes, and emperors. Evidence regarding legal institutions and practice is prolific but scattered and varies by region and period. As in Central Asia and Iran, there is no evidence of systematic registers of qāḍī -court decisions from the Mughal Empire in the manner of Ottoman sijilāt (Repp). Instead, source materials consist of programmatic statements in official surveys and royal chronicles, waqāʾiʿ (
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Islam.
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ALei1712.pdf
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