<span class='italic'>Judgment of the Moroccan Supreme Council of</span> Sharīʿa <span class='italic'>Appeals, Ruling No. 52 on Issue No. 4164 concerning Inheritance, Slavery and Paternity (1359/1943)</span>

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Chapter 28 - Judgment of the Moroccan Supreme Council of Sharīʿa Appeals, Ruling No. 52 on Issue No. 4164 concerning Inheritance, Slavery and Paternity (1359/1943)

from Part IV - Court Judgments and Other Court Documentation

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2024

Ari Schriber

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Omar Anchassi and

Robert Gleave

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Omar Anchassi: Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Robert Gleave: Affiliation:
University of Exeter

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This chapter explores an unusually complicated sixteen-year-long (1928-44) inheritance and paternity dispute that arose originally in the first-instance Sharīʿa Court of Casablanca. The central question in the case was whether the plaintiff’s grandson was entitled to inherit his father and grandfather. The dispute provides numerous lenses into uses of the past as it concerns a Sharīʿa court operating in an ostensible judicial plurality established and enforced by a colonial power (French Protectorate Morocco, 1912-56). Although the judges’ competence was narrowed by the fact of French hegemony, they still enjoyed sufficient independence to use their own legal traditions to adjudicate the cases before them.

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Paternity Filiation (nasab)Child of illicit sex (walad al-zinā)Slavery (riqq)Inheritance Bequest (waṣiyya)Deathbed paternity claim (istilḥāq)Concubinage Judicial practice (ʿamal)Lafīfiyya testimony.

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Information: Islamic Law in Context
A Primary Source Reader
, pp. 296 - 310

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