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Ḥaqq Akhu Manshad: Major and Minor Wrongs and Specialized Judges Among the Negev Bedouin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

Gideon M. Kressel
Gideon M. Kressel
Affiliation:
Research at the Social Studies Center of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, and teaches anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boqer Campus, Israel 84993.
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In several Middle Eastern countries, bedouin law, which exists only in an oral tradition, is today applied alongsidethe increasingly used shariʿa and civil law. Jurisdiction among these three judicial systems is compartmentalized, but sometimes categorizing of individual cases is difficult. Bedouin law also differs considerably from one region to another. The bedouin in this study belong to the ʿArab alʿAzazme, the tribe that inhabits the area stretching from Beer-Sheba (Israel) southward. My acquaintance with the southern tribes in the Sde Boqer vicinity dates from 1980. I recorded the first case in 1982, and the second, which helped me substantiate the first, in autumn 1987.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 17 - 31
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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