The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) First Edition

I am taking an Islamic law and society class at my university. This is one of our required texts and is my favorite of all of them.The concepts involved with Islamic society can be confusing at first and most book look at it form a scholarlly perspective. This book uses real life practical examples to explain the concepts. It was an easy and throughly enjoyable read.

Rosen brings his deep familiarity with both the fields of law and anthropology to bear in an anthropological examintion of the legal practice of kadis and their courts in Moroccan society. His documentation of the cultural logic and practice of Islamic law is fascinating and worth reading although it should be criticized that he too presumptuously seems willing to apply his insights into Moroccan society to Islamic Law as such. In this sense, there is much to be learned from Rosen about the Moroccan cultural and social institutions of Islamic Law, but much less to learn with regard to Islamic law as an intellectual discourse as such.