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" Guarantee - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Peters, Rudolph
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AL
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English
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1061818
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ALei2215
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Peters, Rudolph
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Guarantee - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Peters, Rudolph
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(584 words)
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In Islamic law, a guarantee ( ḍamān; also kafāla, ḥamāla , or zaʿāma ) is a contract in which one party, the creditor (al-maḍmūn lahu) , makes the other party, the guarantor (ḍāmin, kafīl, zaʿīm) , liable for the debt or obligation of a third party, the principal debtor ( al-maḍmūn bihi or al-maḍmūn ʿanhu ). The obligation may involve the payment of a debt, the delivery of an object (ʿayn maḍmūna) to a creditor, or insurance that a particular person presents himself to a creditor at a specific place and time. The parties
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Islam.
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ALei2215.pdf
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