Bedouin Bishah Justice: Ordeal by Fire

Trials by ordeal, a judicial practice in which the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined...
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Author: Joseph Ginat
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Bedouin Bishah Justice: Ordeal by Fire by Ginat, Joseph

Bedouin Bishah Justice: Ordeal by Fire

€107,42

Bedouin Bishah Justice: Ordeal by Fire

€107,42
Author: Joseph Ginat
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Trials by ordeal, a judicial practice in which the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting them to a painful task, have taken place from ancient Mesopotamia until the present day. This volume focuses on a special type of ordeal by fire called the bishah ceremony, which originated in Bedouin societies and continues to be practiced in Egypt today. In Bedouin and Arab rural societies, when somebody suspects another person of theft, property damage, murder, manslaughter, illicit sexual relations, rape, or witchcraft, and there are no witness to the crime, this individual can request the suspect or suspects to accompany him to the mubasha', a Bedouin notable who conducts the ordeal by fire. The bisha'h ceremony was previously performed in Jordan and in Saudi Arabia as well as in Egypt. In Jordan, the late King Hussein banned the ordeal by fire in 1976. In Saudi Arabia, the mubasha' died in the late 1980s, without leaving a successor. Today, in Egypt, near
Ismaliyya, a mubasha' conti


Author: Joseph Ginat
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 08/02/2012
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781845195656

About the Author
Joseph Ginat was a cultural-political anthropologist and the vice president of international relations and research at Netanya Academic College. He is the author of numerous books and the editor of Sussex Studies in Peace Politics in the Middle East, as well as numerous contributions to social anthropology in the field of Mormon studies and Arab culture.

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