book chapter
Western Desert law
Sons of Ishmael : a study of the Egyptian Bedouin • London • Published In 1935 • Pages: 313-328
By: Murray, George William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a translation of the Awlad 'Ali legal code regarding homocides, theft, bodily injury, and liability. The code identifies a variety of situations which lead to death and stipulates the bloodwit, or DIYA, in each case. The law distinquishes between intentional and accidental deaths and assigns liability to hosts if a murder or theft should occur on their premises.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Liability
- Sanctions
- Offenses against life
- Offenses against the person
- Sex and marital offenses
- Property offenses
- Trial procedure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Libyan Bedouin
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Western Desert, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- G. W. Murray
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 37001544
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bedouins