Introduction
Part One: The socio-logic of Islamic legal reasoning
1. Equity and discretion in Islamic law
2. Islamic case-law and the logic of consequence
3. Islamic law as common law: Power, culture, and the reconfiguration of legal taxonomies
4. Responsibility and compensatory justice in Arab culture and law
Part Two: In and out of court
5. From courtroom to courtyard: Law and custom in popular legal culture
6. On the docket: Changing conventions in a Muslim court, 1965-1995
7. Local justice: A day in an alternative court
8. Who do you trust? Structuring confidence in Arab law and society
Part Three: Justice past and present
9. Islamic concepts of justice and injustice
10. Muhammad's sociological jurisprudence
11. Private thoughts, public utterances: Law, privacy, and the consequences for community
12. Islam and Islamic culture in the courts of the United States
References
Index